truce

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  1. noun A temporary cessation or suspension of hostilities by agreement of the opposing sides; an armistice.
  2. noun A respite from a disagreeable state of affairs.
  3. transitive and intransitive verb To end or be ended with a truce.

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  • Regardless of what they'd been told, Gerard's crew seemed to sense that their truce was an armed one. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
  • During the Second Intifada and before a Gaza truce was accepted in June 2008, reliable human rights organizations reported that 334 Israeli military personnel and 719 Israeli civilians were killed. —  CAMERA Snapshots
  • But until now, the only perceptible progress in the Egyptian brokered talks on Gaza truce is the statement made by Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil on Wednesday in Cairo, where he said Hamas has presented a detailed vision to Egyptian mediators on the ceasefire, adding that "We have no difference with Egyptian leadership (on a ceasefire)." —  Top Stories - Google News
  • If the truce is approved, fighting would stop immediately for 10 days. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Gaza truce could be agreed in the first week of February. —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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  1. Middle English trewes, pl. of trewe, treaty, pledge, from Old English trēow; see deru- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also truse, trewse; from Middle English trewes, treowes, triwes, truwes, truwis, trues, trowis, triws, trus (later Old French trues), plural of trewe, obsolete English true, a truce, pledge of reconciliation: see true, n. Truce is thus ult. a plural of true. Cf. dice, plural of die, pence, plural of penny, bodice, plural of body.
 

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