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 →

2) To make two ideas, facts or needs agree with each other, or show that they can both be true. tree →

3) (reconcile yourself to) To accept something unpleasant that you cannot change. tree →

4) (money) To check that two sets of figures, such as bank records and receipts, match. tree →

5) (church) In Christian teaching, to be brought back into friendship with God; the sacrament of Reconciliation is confession in the Catholic Church. tree →

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 →
• Mum and her sister finally reconciled after years apart. tree →
• It is hard to reconcile wanting to save money with wanting a new game. tree →
• He reconciled himself to missing the trip because he was ill. tree →
• Dad reconciled his bank statement with his receipts and found a mistake. tree →
• Our story ended with the two kings reconciled and the war over. tree →
• Catholics believe that in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God forgives their sins. tree →
• When King Pippin heard that he begged his brother’s pardon, and they were reconciled at once and became good friends. tree →

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.
• An apology is a meeting, not a message: Jesus said to go and be reconciled first (Matthew 5:23-24).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reconcile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.