reconcile
[verb]
Synonyms:
- resolve, adjust, compose, put to rights, rectify, settle, square
- reunite, appease, conciliate, make peace between, propitiate
- accept, put up with (informal), resign oneself, submit, yield

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Antonyms: estrange
Related Idioms: bury the hatchet, make peace

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rec‧on‧cile /ˈrekənsaɪl/ verb
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: réconcilier, from Latin conciliare; ⇒ conciliate]

1. [transitive] if you reconcile two ideas, situations, or facts, you find a way in which they can both be true or acceptable:
The possibility remains that the two theories may be reconciled.
reconcile something with something
Bevan tried to reconcile British socialism with a wider international vision.

2. be reconciled (with somebody) to have a good relationship again with someone after you have quarrelled with them:
Jonah and his youngest son were, on the surface at least, reconciled.

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In everyday English, people usually say that two people make up rather than saying that they are reconciled:
They had a fight, but they seem to have made up now.
reconcile somebody to something phrasal verb
to make someone able to accept a difficult or unpleasant situation:
He tried to reconcile his father to the idea of the wedding.
reconcile yourself to something
Henry had more or less reconciled himself to Don’s death.

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