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make peace
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb make peace has 1 sense
- make peace(v = verb.competition) Array - end hostilities; "The brothers who had been fighting over their inheritance finally made peace" is one way to conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile, settle
Derived form noun make-peace1
Antonym: war
Sample sentence:
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ROGET THESAURUS
make peace
Peace
VB be at peace, keep the peace, make peace.Pacification
VB pacify, tranquilize, compose, allay, reconcile, propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch, heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms, settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences, set straight, make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites, come to an understanding, come to terms, bridge over, hush up, make it, make matters up, shake hands, mend one's fences, raise a siege, lift a siege, put up the sword, sheathe the sword, bury the hatchet, lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares, smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus, keep the peace, be pacified, come round.
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