Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: reconcile
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɛkəns,aɪl]
Pronunciations of reconcile
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate
    Meaning: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
  • Synonyms: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile
    Meaning: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"
  • Synonyms: reconcile, patch_up, make_up, conciliate, settle
    Meaning: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
  • Synonyms: resign, reconcile, submit
    Meaning: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
Usage examples
  • William, how could I reconcile it to my conscience not to help?" she continued.
  • Nevertheless, the widow had contrived to reconcile the two men before she reached the Hall.
  • It was one which made it difficult for her to reconcile her marriage with Wyndham to her conscience.
  • I have always tried to reconcile you with the other parties, but at present I feel for you nothing but contempt!"
  • What religious consolations would encourage her penitence? What prayers, what hopes, would reconcile her, on her death-bed, to the common doom?
  • Mrs. Arbuthnot's conscience, made super-sensitive by years of pampering, could not reconcile what she was doing with its own high standard of what was right.
  • For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.
  • The wooded peaks, the impressive promontories of solemn granite, the beautiful green slants of bank and ravine did all they could to reconcile Okochee to the delinquency of miserly gold.
  • "Perhaps not, but you may well fear Him who has said, 'a lying tongue is but for a moment.' How do you reconcile such an assertion as you have just made with the fact of your having that letter in your possession?"
  • He continued his journey; and wherever he went, he thought that everybody was mad, for everybody talked about his nose; nevertheless, he had been so accustomed to hear it asserted that his nose was handsome, that he could not reconcile to himself the idea that it was too long.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Frédéric Bastiat, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Kindred (novel), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Barack Obama, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording William the Conqueror, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Council of Trent, License CC BY-SA 4.0