bury the hatchet

Speech parts

1. bury the hatchet - Verb

2. bury the hatchet - Phrase

Meaning

bury the hatchet (third-person singular simple present buries the hatchet, present participle burying the hatchet, simple past and past participle buried the hatchet)

(US) To stop fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce.
They need to calm down and bury the hatchet before someone gets hurt.
Antonym: take up the hatchet

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

reconcile make-up conciliate make-peace call it quits

Antonyms

SPAR war argue contend tilt quarrel
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Examples

A little careful pushing, and they'll bury the hatchet all right-in each other. Poul Anderson

Although Chuck remained a little skeptical of his son-in-law, Elizabeth was thrilled to discover Andrei and Chuck had a good conversation and seemed to bury the hatchet. Source: Internet

As a campaigner, it was quite difficult to on the one hand argue that we thought Brexit was an impending national catastrophe, but on the other hand explain how it wasn’t quite important enough for us to bury the hatchet with Labour in order to avoid it. Source: Internet

In a turn of events that was waiting to happen, the US President has prevailed upon both Saudi Arabia and Russia to bury the hatchet and agree to cut oil output further. Source: Internet

Liam and Noel Gallagher 'are on speaking terms again after their children encouraged them to bury the hatchet' Source: Internet

Maybe one day they can bury the hatchet or do it for the culture. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

bury the hatchet

Close letter words and terms

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