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olive-branch

olive-branch verb: to extend an olive branch; to make a peace offering; to attempt to restore peaceful relations.

Verb

olive-branch (third-person singular simple present olive-branches, present participle olive-branching, simple past and past participle olive-branched)

  1. To extend an olive branch; to make a peace offering; to attempt to restore peaceful relations.
    • As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!1914, Thomas Allibone Janvier, At the Casa Napoleon, page 140
    • That was intricate reporting plus reasoning plus olive-branching and remonstrating.1989, Albert Norman, The Falkland Islands, Their Kinship Isles, the Antarctic Hemisphere, & the Freedom of the 2 Great Oceans, page 218

olive-branch meaning in Tamil

olive-branch in Tamil

சமாதானச் சின்னம், குழந்தை

Examples of olive-branch in a sentence

  • The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.2007, William Jelani Cobb, The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays, page 15:
  • “Let me help you out,” I olive-branched him, “I do know what you pulled me for; I crossed the double yellow line.2016, Jeff Scot Philips, Big Fat Food Fraud: Confessions of a Health-Food Hustler:

Forms of olive-branch

third-person singular presentolive-branches
present participleolive-branching
past participleolive-branched
pastolive-branched

Questions about olive-branch

What does olive-branch mean?
Olive-branch means to extend an olive branch; to make a peace offering; to attempt to restore peaceful relations.
What is olive-branch in Tamil?
Olive-branch in Tamil is சமாதானச் சின்னம், குழந்தை. See Olive-branch meaning in Tamil.
How do you use olive-branch in a sentence?
The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.
What part of speech is olive-branch?
Olive-branch is a verb.
What is the past tense of olive-branch?
The past tense of olive-branch is olive-branched.

Words near olive-branch in the dictionary

  1. olive-backed oriole
  2. olive-backed orioles
  3. olive-backed pipit
  4. olive-backed sunbird
  5. olive-backed thrush
  6. olive-branch
  7. olive-branched
  8. olive-branches
  9. olive-branching
  10. olive-oily
  11. olive-pomace oil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: olive-branch (page history and authors); olive-branch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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