verb
end hostilities (Freq. 1)
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The brothers who had been fighting over their inheritance finally made peace
• Ant: ↑war
• Derivationally related forms: ↑make-peace
• Hypernyms: ↑reconcile, ↑patch up, ↑make up, ↑conciliate, ↑settle
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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make peace
To end a war
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Main Entry: ↑peace
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make peace (or one's peace)
reestablish friendly relations; become reconciled
not every conservative has made peace with big government
Useful english dictionary. 2012.