reconciling Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make (one thing) compatible with (another)
    accommodate; conciliate; reconcile.
    • The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories
  2. verb bring into consonance or accord
    harmonize; harmonise; reconcile.
    • harmonize one's goals with one's abilities
  3. verb come to terms
    make up; patch up; settle; reconcile; conciliate.
    • After some discussion we finally made up
  4. verb accept as inevitable
    submit; reconcile; resign.
    • He resigned himself to his fate
  5. adjective satellite tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony
    accommodative.

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