Disband vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
disband | reconcile |
To break up or cause to cease to exist.
* Knolles
(obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
(obsolete) To divorce.
* Milton
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As verbs the difference between disband and reconcile
is that disband is to break up or cause to cease to exist while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.disband
English
Verb
(en verb)- The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.
- They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.
- And therefore she ought to be disbanded .
References
reconcile
English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.