Usually means: End conflict, make peace now.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. bury the hatchet: Merriam-Webster
  2. bury the hatchet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bury the hatchet: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bury the hatchet: Wiktionary
  5. bury the hatchet: Dictionary.com
  6. Bury The Hatchet, Bury the Hatchet (album), Bury the Hatchet (film), Bury the Hatchet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Bury the Hatchet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. bury the hatchet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Bury the hatchet: Phrase Finder
  10. bury the hatchet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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  2. bury the hatchet: Idioms

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  1. bury the hatchet: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bury the hatchet)

▸ verb:  (US, idiomatic) To cease fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce.

Similar:
resolve, sheathe the sword, settle accounts with, hammer out, put to rest, fight out, agree to disagree, bury, come round, break up, more...

Opposite:
hold grudge, bear grudge, harbor resentment

Phrases:
to bury the hatchet, more...

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Similar:
resolve, sheathe the sword, settle accounts with, hammer out, put to rest, fight out, agree to disagree, bury, come round, break up, more...

Opposite:
hold grudge, bear grudge, harbor resentment

Phrases:
to bury the hatchet, more...



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