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olive-branching

olive-branching is the present participle and gerund of olive-branch.

Meaning of olive-branch

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

Questions about olive-branching

What is olive-branching the present participle and gerund of?
Olive-branching is the present participle and gerund of olive-branch.

Words near olive-branching in the dictionary

  1. olive-backed sunbird
  2. olive-backed thrush
  3. olive-branch
  4. olive-branched
  5. olive-branches
  6. olive-branching
  7. olive-oily
  8. olive-pomace oil
  9. olive-sided flycatcher
  10. olive-sided flycatchers
  11. oliveback

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Adapted from Wiktionary: olive-branching (page history and authors); olive-branch (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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