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Definition of reconcile : 1. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
2. To become reconciled.
3. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
4. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.
5. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; - followed by with or to.

Synonyms:

gruntle, decide, rectify, accede, chord, free, render, alienate, patch up, subside, manufacture, oblige, even out, square, get back, correct, subject, bow, even off, determine, give up, propitiate, change, leave office, regulate, go down, pass on, accept, ensconce, put forward, finalize, concord, go under, harmonise, root, take, fall, harmonize, counterbalance, finalise, fit, arrange, release, represent, straighten out, suit, accord, even up, state, sink, irritate, win over, acclimate, fabricate, integrate, patch, be, pay, give in, descend, comprise, tailor, bother, take root, love, admit, relegate, gentle, quit, renounce, relinquish, step down, cook up, reunite, consort, lenify, present, coordinate, put in, nail down, attune, locate, submit, make up, make, steady down, square up, catch up with, tune, resolve, defer, hold, adapt, vacate, smooth over, posit, fit in, acclimatize, constitute, square off, proportion, resign, mitigate, lodge, conform, fashion, agree, pay off, settle down, invent

appease, compromise, accommodate, settle, compensate, allow, adjust, mediate, bargain, concede

ebb, allay, lull, relieve, quiet, quell, compose, placate, smooth, calm, assuage, hush, soothe, ease, stabilize, mollify, soften, tranquilize, cool, defuse, moderate, pacify

conciliate, adjudicate, intervene, facilitate, intercede, negotiate, arbitrate, assist, parley

Usage examples:

• Try to reconcile brothers if they quarrel. - "Early English Meals and Manners", Various.
• Further consideration, it is to be hoped, or some modification of terms, may yet reconcile the differences existing between the two Governments in this respect. - "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various.
• And still more, when we find other words of Scripture which seem hard to reconcile with them, if pressed to their utmost meaning. - "The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon", Alexander Maclaren.