1 (reunite) [+persons] reconciliar the problem Ireland faces is that of reconciling two tribes one Catholic, and one Protestant an attempt to reconcile the country's warring clans and factions
to be reconciled (with) estar reconciliado (con); the couple are now reconciled la pareja está ahora reconciliada
the Orthodox Church will never be reconciled with the papacy he was reconciled with his wife and daughters in his final illness
2 (make compatible) [+theories, ideals] conciliar she reconciled the conflicting pressures of motherhood and career concilió las exigencias contrapuestas de la maternidad y de una profesión
he has problems reconciling his ideals with real life how can order be reconciled with freedom?
3 (settle) [+differences] resolver you must try and reconcile your differences tenéis que intentar resolver vuestras diferencias
you should reason the matter over together as reasonable people and reconcile your differences Unification has forced Germany to reconcile its differences it may take years for opponents and supporters of the Persian Gulf War to reconcile their differences over just who the homefront patriots were
4 (resign) what reconciled him to it was ... lo que hizo que lo aceptara fue ...; to become reconciled to sth aceptar algo; resignarse a algo
now I'm becoming reconciled to my shape the outsider who cannot become reconciled with an inferior or materialistic society they have become reconciled to waiting several years for this to happen
to reconcile o.s. to sth resignarse a algo
she is reconciling herself to having lost her job she had reconciled herself to never seeing him again
5 [+accounts] hacer cuadrar; conciliar (formal) they have 30 different clerks reconciling invoices
