Reconcile vs Alter - What's the difference?
reconcile | alter | Related terms |
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.
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
Reconcile is a related term of alter.
As a verb reconcile
is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.As an adjective alter is
.reconcile
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(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.
Derived terms
* reconciliationalter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)