cease fire
verbDefinitions
To stop engaging in hostile acts, particularly those involving firearms.
Alternative spelling of ceasefire.
- I also encourage all of us to begin the cease fire in America's culture war by taking the initiative of inviting someone from the other camp to lunch.
- in El Salvador, they declared a cease fire after ten years. Why didn't they think of that at the beginning?
- On August 4 there was a cease fire in Java, the battle had lasted all of two weeks.
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