reconcile

Definition

  • verb: to find a way of making (two different ideas, facts, etc.) exist or be true at the same time
  • verb: to restore to friendship or harmony
  • often used as '(be) reconciled'
  • synonyms: pacify, appease, propitiate

Examples

  • I'm afraid her story cannot be 'reconciled' with the proven facts. [=her story must be false because it does not agree with the proven facts]

  • After many years, they 'are' finally 'reconciled' (with each other). [=they are friendly again]

  • His attempt to 'reconcile' his friends (with each other) was unsuccessful.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Sherman! Oh! Hey! Where did the other two go? Our cosmic doubles combined in order to reconcile a paradox... in the space-time continuum. Okay, that makes sense. I don't know what just happened here... but I know it was wrong! (..)
    2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman