Antonyms for reconcile
ˈrɛk ənˌsaɪlrec·on·cile

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1. reconcile

   Antonyms:
   separate, sever, dissever, estrange, disharmonize, derange, alienate

   Synonyms:
   unite, conciliate, propitiate, pacify, harmonize, adjust, adapt, suit, reunite

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1. • Accept

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1. accommodate, reconcile, conciliateverb

   make (one thing) compatible with (another)

   "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"

   Synonyms:
   mollify, conciliate, harmonize, gentle, suit, fit, lenify, placate, admit, settle, hold, accommodate, adapt, appease, gruntle, pacify, assuage, resign, oblige, make up, patch up, lodge, harmonise, submit

2. harmonize, harmonise, reconcileverb

   bring into consonance or accord

   "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"

   Synonyms:
   harmonise, fit in, settle, agree, accommodate, consort, submit, resign, make up, harmonize, concord, chord, patch up, accord, conciliate

3. reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settleverb

   come to terms

   "After some discussion we finally made up"

   Synonyms:
   accommodate, root, even off, appease, square up, placate, make up, compensate, patch up, mollify, nail down, gentle, resign, settle down, even out, fabricate, square off, gruntle, subside, make, pay, determine, be, patch, go under, go down, fall, correct, invent, counterbalance, ensconce, sink, catch up with, manufacture, harmonise, steady down, get back, represent, adjudicate, assuage, conciliate, cook up, pacify, even up, comprise, decide, harmonize, take root, lenify, resolve, locate, descend, constitute, finalize, pay off, finalise, submit, settle

4. resign, reconcile, submitverb

   accept as inevitable

   "He resigned himself to his fate"

   Synonyms:
   defer, conciliate, harmonize, quit, bow, state, relegate, accede, leave office, subject, vacate, render, settle, free, submit, posit, renounce, put forward, give up, step down, release, resign, pass on, present, give in, relinquish, put in, make up, patch up, accommodate, harmonise, take

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1. reconcileverb

   Antonyms:
   estrange, disaffect, alienate

   Synonyms:
   conciliate, propitiate, pacify, harmonize, adjust, settle

How to use reconcile in a sentence?

1. Darren Curnoe:

   I know these fossils better than anyone. They are anatomically very puzzling, even if they are modern humans, as the DNA suggests, how do we reconcile that ? Perhaps people's anatomical form in the past -- over long timescales -- was very' plastic' and responded to the environment and lifestyle of these early people. This could be something we have lost since we took up farming.

2. Thomas Markle:

   Everybody would be filled with sympathy for Thomas Markle, but I hope we reconcile. I'd hate to die without speaking to Meghan Markle again.

3. Kevin Cramer:

   He certainly won't be the first president… who has done that, has taken a look at the nine members and taken a look at America and tries to reconcile some proportion of that.

4. Ron Johnson:

   There’s a lot of work to be done to reconcile the treatment of pass-throughs in the Senate and House bills, and I am glad to have received assurances I will have a seat at the table during those negotiations.

5. Pope Francis:

   It is a continuing tragedy in our world that so many communities are at war with themselves, the inability to reconcile differences and disagreements, whether old or new, has given rise to ethnic and religious tensions, frequently accompanied by outbreaks of violence.

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