reconcile

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/
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/ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/ · /ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/ · /ˈɹekənsɑel/ · /ˈɹekənsaɪl/ · [ˈɹekənsɑe̯l] · /ɹɪˈkɒnsaɪl/

Definition of reconcile

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
    “to reconcile people who have quarrelled”
    “to wait until others have reconciled”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
    “to reconcile people who have quarrelled”
    “to wait until others have reconciled”
  2. (transitive)To make things compatible or consistent.
    “to reconcile differences”
    “Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace”
    “The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.”
  3. (transitive)To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.

Anagrams of reconcile

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13 words

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3 extensions · 3 back

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