cease-fire
noun
ˈsēs-ˈfi(-ə)r 
1
: a military order to cease firing
2
: a suspension of active hostilities
Synonyms
- armistice
- truce
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Word History
First Known Use
1844, in the meaning defined at sense 1
cease-fires
noun
as in truces
a temporary stopping of fighting the two armies declared a cease-fire for the holiday Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- truces
- armistices
- reconciliations
- reconcilements
- accords
- peaces
- peacetimes
- détentes
- detentes
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hostilities
- wars
- conflicts
- hot wars
- homologizers
- homologizes
- homologizing
- homologoumena
- homologous
- homologous graft
- homologous stimulus
- homologous theory
- homologous twin
- homolographic
- homolographic projection
- homologs
- homologue
- homologues
- homologumena
- homology
- homolosine projection
- homolyses
- homolysis
- homolytic
- homomallous
- homometrical
- homometrically
- homomorphic
- homomorphies