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.

Verb

(combin)

To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

* (John Dryden)

You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

So sweet did harp and voice combine .

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To have two or more things or properties that function together.

Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

To come together; to unite.

two substances that easily combine

(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

* (William Shakespeare)

I am combined by a sacred vow.