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reconciling

reconciling is the present participle and gerund of reconcile.

Meaning of reconcile

Verb

reconcile (third-person singular simple present reconciles, present participle reconciling, simple past and past participle reconciled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  2. (transitive) To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  3. (transitive) To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

Questions about reconciling

What is reconciling the present participle and gerund of?
Reconciling is the present participle and gerund of reconcile.

Words near reconciling in the dictionary

  1. reconciliative
  2. reconciliator
  3. reconciliatorily
  4. reconciliators
  5. reconciliatory
  6. reconciling
  7. reconcilingly
  8. reconclude
  9. reconcluded
  10. reconcludes
  11. reconcluding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconciling (page history and authors); reconcile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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