reconcile
/ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/ verb C2- To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony. · to reconcile people who have quarrelled· to wait until others have reconciled
- To make things compatible or consistent. · to reconcile differences
- To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
He/she/it reconciles · Past reconciled · Past participle reconciled · -ing form reconciling
Verb forms
- Base form
- reconcile
- He/she/it
- reconciles
- Past
- reconciled
- Past participle
- reconciled
- -ing form
- reconciling
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Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
“Do you know, my dear Villefort,” cried the Comte de Salvieux, “that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Condé; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles.
When the battle was at its height, a Sprat lifted its head out of the waves and said that he would reconcile their differences if they would accept him as an umpire.
“If I can only find what the fellow is driving at by reconciling all these accomplishments, and discovering a calling which needs them all,” I said to myself, “I may as well give up the attempt at once.”
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