- make peace with
- end the fighting, choose to forgive and forget, make up with
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
make peace with
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make up with — make peace with, forgive and forget … English contemporary dictionary
make your peace with — ◇ If you make your peace with someone, you end an argument or disagreement that you had with that person. He wanted to make his peace with his father before he died. • • • Main Entry: ↑peace … Useful english dictionary
make (your) peace with (someone) — to stop arguing with someone. Melanie knew she had to go back into the house and make her peace with her parents … New idioms dictionary
make (your) peace (with someone) — phrase to end an argument with someone and stop feeling angry towards them It’s time he made his peace with his family. Thesaurus: ending, solving and avoiding arguments and fightshyponym to forgive or excusesynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
make (your) peace with somebody — make (your) peace with sb idiom to end an argument with sb, usually by saying you are sorry • He made peace with his brother when their father was dying. Main entry: ↑peaceidiom … Useful english dictionary
make (your) peace with (something) — to accept something. He knows that he s really too old to play ball, and he s made his peace with that … New idioms dictionary
make one's peace with — To reconcile or to be reconciled with • • • Main Entry: ↑peace … Useful english dictionary
make peace — verb end hostilities (Freq. 1) The brothers who had been fighting over their inheritance finally made peace • Ant: ↑war • Derivationally related forms: ↑make peace • Hypernyms: ↑reconcile, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
make one's peace with — idi make one s peace with, to become reconciled with or to … From formal English to slang
To make one's peace with — Peace Peace, n. [OE. pees, pais, OF. pais, paiz, pes, F. paix, L. pax, pacis, akin to pacere, paciscere, pacisci, to make an agreement, and prob. also pangere to fasten. Cf. {Appease}, {Fair}, a., {Fay}, v., {Fang}, {Pacify}, {Pact}, {Pay} to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
