Other forms: reconciled, reconciling, reconciles
To reconcile is to restore peace between people, or between clashing facts. Reconcile with her father, hard to reconcile, reconcile the accounts.
The second sense is the one accountants use daily: reconciling two records means explaining every difference between them until they agree. Reconciled to something means having accepted it. Note that the Latin means to bring together again, from concilium, a council — the same root as council and conciliate.
1verbreconcileTo restore peace between people.
“After years of not speaking, the two brothers were finally reconciled at their father's funeral.”
2verbaccountsTo make two accounts or facts agree.
“The two witnesses' stories were impossible to reconcile.”
reconcile is a bringing together.
Also accepted in games: make up
RECONcile → they RECKON it up and are done
Two people who have not spoken for years sit down together and reckon the whole thing up, and by the end of it they are friends again.
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Latin
reconciliō
English, today
reconcile
Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA