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MAKE PEACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does make peace mean?
• MAKE PEACE (verb)
The verb MAKE PEACE has 1 sense:
1. end hostilities
Familiarity information: MAKE PEACE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
End hostilities
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Context example:
The brothers who had been fighting over their inheritance finally made peace
Hypernyms (to "make peace" is one way to...):
conciliate; make up; patch up; reconcile; settle (come to terms)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
war (make or wage war)
Derivation:
make-peace (someone who tries to bring peace)
Context examples
If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature’s sake I would make peace with the whole kind!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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