Word Meanings - RECONCILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. We pray

Additional info about word: RECONCILE

1. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled. Propitious now and reconciled by prayer. Dryden. We pray you . . . be ye reconciled to God. 2 Cor. v. 20. 2. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions. 3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to. The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state. Locke. Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near; Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace. Pope. 4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences. Syn. -- To reunite; conciliate; placate; propitiate; pacify; appease.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECONCILE)

• Accommodate
• Convenience
• oblige
• adapt
• supply
• reconcile
• suit
• fit
• adjust
• furnish
• serve
• harmonize
• Accustom
• Habituate
• familiarize
• form
• inure
• train
• Conciliate
• Win
• gain
• enlist
• pacify
• make friendly
• propitiate
• Heal
• Cure
• repair
• restore
• remedy
• assuage
• cicatrize
• Propitiate
• secure
• appease
• win

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECONCILE)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to RECONCILE)

• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• OBLIGER
  One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• OBLIGEMENT
  Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
• SERVER
  1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• CICATRIZE
  To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman.
• SECURER
  One who, or that which, secures.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• SECURENESS
  The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INSERVE
  To be of use to an end; to serve.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.