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conciliatecon‧cil‧i‧ate /kənˈsɪlieɪt/ verb [intransitive, transitive] formal conciliateOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of conciliare ‘to bring together, unite’, from concilium; ➔ COUNCIL VERB TABLEconciliate |
Present | I, you, we, they | conciliate | | he, she, it | conciliates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | conciliated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have conciliated | | he, she, it | has conciliated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had conciliated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will conciliate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have conciliated |
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Present | I | am conciliating | | he, she, it | is conciliating | | you, we, they | are conciliating | Past | I, he, she, it | was conciliating | | you, we, they | were conciliating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been conciliating | | he, she, it | has been conciliating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been conciliating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be conciliating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been conciliating |
- Negotiators were called in to conciliate the warring factions.
- After 1951 Winston Churchill and his Conservative successors protected the welfare state, maintained full employment, and conciliated the trade unions.
- Compromise Bargaining, negotiating, conciliating.
- Do not forget Mr Hurd's record for soothing nerves and conciliating Tory antagonists.
- He was aware of the need to conciliate, to plead, to attempt to explain.
- It was most odd the way this woman had immediately made her feel as though she had to be conciliating.
- The king, however, also had reason to conciliate the Stanleys and in 1472 the matter went to arbitration.
- We would also suggest an attempt to conciliate Fred by returning the responsibility for special functions to him.
to do something to make people more likely to stop arguing, especially by giving them something they want: efforts to conciliate the unions—conciliator noun [countable] |