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Verb: bury the hatchet
  1. End hostilities
    "The brothers who had been fighting over their inheritance finally buried the hatchet"
    - make peace, let bygones be bygones

Derived forms: burying the hatchet, buries the hatchet, buried the hatchet

Type of: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile, settle

Encyclopedia: Bury the hatchet