Definitions for reconcile

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reconcile rec·on·cile

Spelling: [rek-uh n-sahyl]

IPA: /ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪl/

Reconcile is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in reconcile (cceeilnor).

Definitions for reconcile

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired:
2. to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable:
3. to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).
4. to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent:
5. to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).
6. to restore (an excommunicate or penitent) to communion in a church.

verb (used without object)

1. to become reconciled.

Origin of reconcile

1300-50; Middle English reconcilen Latin reconciliāre to make good again, repair. See re-, conciliate

Examples for reconcile

America presents two contradictory narratives that it struggles to reconcile.

Efforts to reconcile these differences have been delayed and the issue remains disputed.

You can do more than any body to reconcile my parents and uncles to me.

reconcile is a rapper from Houston, a city with a rich hip-hop legacy.

And if I find this, I shall not know how to reconcile it with your delicacy in other respects.

All this I heard in my prison, and it served to reconcile me to the confinement.

First Lady Mellie (Bellamy Young) and Fitz reconcile—because of the whole rape thing—and we learn the son is actually his.

But reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.

Concessions were made, but they failed to reconcile the opposition.

Their friends had all the trouble in the world to reconcile them.