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Disband vs Reconcile - What's the difference?

disband | reconcile |

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)
  • To break up or cause to cease to exist.
  • The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.
  • * Knolles
  • They disbanded themselves and returned, every man to his own dwelling.
  • (obsolete) To loose the bands of; to set free.
  • (obsolete) To divorce.
  • * Milton
  • And therefore she ought to be disbanded .

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    reconcile

    English

    (reconciliation)

    Verb

    (reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
  • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
  • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
  • 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.
  • * John Locke
  • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
  • Derived terms

    * reconciliation