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# reconcile

«reconcile» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make friends again after a quarrel: «The two friends…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (reconcile, reconciles, reconciled, reconciling); noun «reconciliation»

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make friends again after a quarrel: «The two friends were reconciled». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#m1)

2) To make two ideas, facts or needs agree with each other, or show that they can both be true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#m2)

3) (reconcile yourself to) To accept something unpleasant that you cannot change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#m3)

4) (money) To check that two sets of figures, such as bank records and receipts, match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#m4)

5) (church) In Christian teaching, to be brought back into friendship with God; the sacrament of Reconciliation is confession in the Catholic Church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and ethics lessons: two characters reconcile after a fight; making peace is brave. In maths and money: reconciling accounts means checking that totals match. In formal writing: reconcile different views. In church life: Catholics speak of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, where a person confesses their sins to a priest and is forgiven, as they believe. Phrases: «reconcile with», «be reconciled», «reconcile yourself to», «reconcile the accounts».

### examples

- After a week of not talking, the two friends were reconciled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x1)
- Mum and her sister finally reconciled after years apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x2)
- It is hard to reconcile wanting to save money with wanting a new game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x3)
- He reconciled himself to missing the trip because he was ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x4)
- Dad reconciled his bank statement with his receipts and found a mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x5)
- Our story ended with the two kings reconciled and the war over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x6)
- Catholics believe that in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God forgives their sins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x7)
- When King Pippin heard that he begged his brother’s pardon, and they were reconciled at once and became good friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: reconciled. Stress: REC-on-sile. Noun: reconciliation (rec-on-sil-ee-AY-shun). «Reconcile with» a person; «reconcile yourself to» a situation. In money tasks, when two lists are reconciled, the totals must be equal; any difference is a mistake to find.

### In the corpora

- [Sometimes political arguments make relatives fall out and stop talking; many families reconcile, often by agreeing to talk about other things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/12/)
- [An apology is a meeting, not a message: Jesus said to go and be reconciled first (Matthew 5:23-24).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/90-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reconcile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reconcile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.