To make friendly again, restore friendly relations between, settle, resolve,
bring into harmony or agreement.
Reconcile comes from the Latin reconciliare, to make good again,
restore, repair. When estranged partners reconcile, they make their relationship good again by restoring it, repairing what was wrong with it.
When two parties in a dispute reconcile their differences, they settle them
and restore friendly relations. The corresponding noun is reconciliation, a
settlement, resolution, the act of restoring harmony or agreement.
Reconcile also has two other useful senses. It may mean to bring into
agreement, make consistent: “The jury found it hard to reconcile the
defendant's confession of guilt the night of the murder with his profession
of innocence during the trial.” Reconcile may also mean to resign oneself
to accept something undesirable: “Nancy didn't want to live with her
mother-in-law, but she reconciled herself to it and tried to get on with her
life.”
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To make friendly again, restore friendly relations between, settle, resolve, bring into harmony or agreement. Reconcile comes from the Latin reconciliare, to make good again, restore, repair. When estranged partners reconcile, they make their relationship good again by restoring it, repairing what was wrong with it. When two parties in a dispute reconcile their differences, they settle them and restore friendly relations. The corresponding noun is reconciliation, a settlement, resolution, the act of restoring harmony or agreement.
王二狗Mark
Reconcile also has two other useful senses. It may mean to bring into agreement, make consistent: “The jury found it hard to reconcile the defendant's confession of guilt the night of the murder with his profession of innocence during the trial.” Reconcile may also mean to resign oneself to accept something undesirable: “Nancy didn't want to live with her mother-in-law, but she reconciled herself to it and tried to get on with her life.”