<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.</li><li>to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.</li><li>to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).</li><li>to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.</li><li>to reconsecrate (a desecrated church, cemetery, etc.).</li><li>to restore (an excommunicate or penitent) to communion in a church.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to become reconciled.</li></ul>