Both Uses
reconcile
in
The Girl on the Train
(Edited)
- Both her parents died a few years ago, without ever being reconciled with their daughter.
p. 108.5 *reconciled = restored to a good relationship after a period of estrangement or conflict
- And the thing with the golf club, that hole in the plaster, grey and blank like a blinded eye trained on me every time I passed it, and I couldn't reconcile the violence that he talked about with the fear that I remembered.
p. 322.8 *reconcile = make compatible
Definitions:
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(1)
(reconcile as in: reconciled their differences) to make peace between people or bring different ideas into agreement
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(2)
(reconcile as in: reconciled herself to) to accept something difficult or unwanted -- especially when it can’t be changed
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)