MEANING
To reduce hostility or gain goodwill through efforts toward agreement or accommodation.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- conciliate opponents
- conciliate an angry crowd
On the page
She tried to conciliate the workers before announcing the revised terms.
His apology conciliated some opponents without changing the policy.
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Related words
Word forms
- Base
- conciliate
- Past tense
- conciliated
- Past participle
- conciliated
- Present participle
- conciliating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- conciliate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are conciliating
- Present perfect
- have/has conciliated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been conciliating
- Past
- conciliated
- Past continuous
- was/were conciliating
- Past perfect
- had conciliated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been conciliating
- Future
- will conciliate
- Future continuous
- will be conciliating
- Future perfect
- will have conciliated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been conciliating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: conciliate; conciliates; conciliated; conciliated; conciliating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: conciliates.
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