Truce

Definition: Truce

Truce

Noun

1. A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "truce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

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TRUCE

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Synonyms: Truce

Cessation

Intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping; Verb: closure, stoppage, halt; arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture.

Interjection: hold! stop! enough! avast! have done! a truce to! soft! leave off! tenez!

Mediation

Mediatization; intervention, interposition, interference, intermeddling, intercession; arbitration; flag of truce; good offices, peace offering.

Pacification

Truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down; breathing time; convention; modus vivendi; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire, cartel.

Hollow truce, pax in bello; drawn battle.

Peace

Noun: peace; amity; (friendship); harmony; (concord); tranquility, calm; (quiescence); truce, peace treaty, accord; (pacification); peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace.

Crosswords: Truce

Italian (cruel, grim).

No flags of truce, no cries of pity (Fortress Around Yur Heart; performing artist: Sting)

The Truce Hurts (1948)

Songs of Truce (1913)

A Temporary Truce (1912)

Under a Flag of Truce (1912)

Battle of No Truce (1993)

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Books

• Fugitive Spring: Truce @ Bakura (reference)

• Goat Brothers: Truce @ Bakura (reference)

• If this is a man ; and, The truce (reference)

• Nijinsky: Truce @ Bakura (reference)

• Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Audubon Video: Grizzly and Man - Uneasy Truce (reference)

• The Truce (reference)

• Truce in the Forest (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Truce (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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In the trenches during a truce : the Spanish lines run right in front of the city ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Mao picking petals "yes" and "no" off of "truce talks" flower. Credit: Library of Congress.

A truce - not a compromise, but a chance for high-toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress.

Custer receiving Flag of Truce. Credit: Library of Congress.

The place of Exchange in the Savannah river looking toward the City, the Rebel boat Beauregard coming down to meet the flag of truce. Credit: Library of Congress.

Flag of Truce. Credit: Library of Congress.

Returned prisoners of war exchanging their rags for new clothing on board Flag of Truce boat New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Rebel dodge to cover the retreat into Virginia. Flag of truce to look after the wounded. Credit: Library of Congress.

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You are singular, I admit, that is your way, but a truce is granted to people who get married.

Such a day is a truce to vice.

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Business

Prior to the July 6 elections, the EPR declared a truce. (references)

Economic History

Mongolia

Truce negotiated between U.S.S.R. and Japan. (references)

Colombia

After growing violence against its UP members, when an estimated 1,000-3,000 were killed, the truce with the FARC ended in 1990. (references)

Denmark

Since the 1988 elections, which led to a domestic truce on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and security questions, Denmark's role in the European Union (EU) has come to be a key political issue. (references)

Human Rights

Chad

At year's end, following intervention by the National Mediator, there was an uneasy truce between the two communities. (references)

Colombia

The ELN unilaterally had committed to a truce until April 2002, demanding in turn that the mayors request that the Government withdraw police from their towns. (references)

Political Economy

Moldova

Fighting flared briefly in 1992 but ended after Russian forces intervened, and a truce has held since, although agreements to normalize relations have not been honored. (references)

Worker Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

The Labor Ministry arbitrated more than 20 labor conflicts during the year, in spite of the social truce asked for by the Government. (references)

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Expressions using "truce": a truce to talking ♦ call a truce ♦ flag of truce ♦ oath of truce ♦ party truce ♦ truce envoy ♦ truce of god ♦ truce to jesting! ♦ truce violation. Additional references.

Beginning with "truce": truce-bearer, truce-making, truce-terms.

Albanian

pushim zjarri (cease fire), ndërprerje (break, breaking, cease, cessation, chasm, check, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, intercept, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, intersection, letup, outage, recess, suspension), armëpushim (armistice, cease fire). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هدنة (armistice, cease fire, intermission), ‏عقد هدنة, ‏إنتهى بهدنة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, ultima thule, verge, wind up), отдих (leisure, relaxation, repose, reprieve, respite, rest), примирие. (various references)

Chinese 

停战 (Armistice). (various references)

Czech

přímìří (armistice), oddech (pause, reprieve, rest), klid zbraní. (various references)

Dutch

wapenstilstand, bestand (dossier, file). (various references)

Esperanto

militpaŭzo. (various references)

Farsi 

متارکه جنگ , قراردادمتارکه موقت جنگ , جنگ ایست . (various references)

Finnish

välirauha, aselepo (armistice). (various references)

French

trêve. (various references)

German

Waffenruhe (ceasefire). (various references)

Greek 

εκεχειρία (cessation of hostilities), ανακωχή (armistice, cease fire, ceasefire). (various references)

Hebrew 

שביתת � שק (armistice, cease fire), �"פו�'�" (cessation, interlude, intermission, interval, lull, pause, respite), �"פסקת אש (cease fire). (various references)

Hungarian

fegyverszünet (armistice, cessation of arms). (various references)

Indonesian

gencatan senjata (armistice, ceasefire, disarmament). (various references)

Italian

tregua (respite, rest), armistizio (armistice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

休戦 (armistice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうせ�" (armistice, bows and arrows, hades, nether regions, war). (various references)

Manx

scuirr caggee. (various references)

Pig Latin

ucetray

Portuguese

tréguas, trégua (armistice), pausa (break, breath, breather, caesura, cessation, check, halt, intermission, interruption, interval, letup, recess, respite, rest, standstill, stopping, time-out), descanso (bracket, break, crutch, halt, landing, lay-over, leisure, lounge, pillow, pillow-block, placement, quiescence, quiescency, recumbence, recumbency, refreshment, relaxation, repose, requiem, respite, rest, resting, saddle, sleep, time-out, touch-down), armistício (armistice). (various references)

Romanian

repaus (easy, quiet, repose, rest, sleep, spell), rãgaz (dalliance, interregnum, interruption, leisure, pause, peace, reprieve, respite, rest, time), pauzã (break, interlude, intermission, interruption, interval, lull, pause, recess, respite, rest, rule, spell, stand, stop), armistiţiu (armistice), acalmie (armistice, lull, pause, respite, rest). (various references)

Russian 

перемирие (armistice, cessation of arms, cessation of hostilities). (various references)

Scottish

osadh (cessation, desisting). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

primirje (armistice), prekid vatre (cease fire). (various references)

Spanish

tregua (let up, lull, respite). (various references)

Swedish

vapenvila (armistice, cease fire). (various references)

Turkish

mütareke, ateşkes (armistice, ceasefire), ara (break, breather, breathing space, bye-, cessation, chasm, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, distance, gap, interim, interlocutory, interlude, intermediary, intermediate, intermission, interregnum, interruption, Interspace, interval, lull, mediate, meso-, recess, recessional, recreation, respite, secondary, space, spacing, spread, stand down, surcease, time lag, time out, 'tween). (various references)

Ukrainian

кінець (close, closing, decline, end, extremity, finish, last, outcome, overthrow, terminal), перемир'я, перепочинок (respite, spelling). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tạm nghỉ (halt, pause), sự tạm đình. (various references)

Welsh

cadoediad (armistice). (various references)

indutiae, pax pacis. (various references)

âxshti. (various references)

treow. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "truce": truced, truces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Truce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rucce, ruce, teuce, touce, touci, trece, Trepca, tricey, trici, troc, trocal, trocar, trocaz, troce, trofe, troke, trouc, trouce, trube, truc, truced, trucer, truch, trucken, trude, truex, trufe, truge, truk, trune, truse, truso, Trusov, trusse, trute, Trutex, truve, Tucci, tuce, tuche, turc, turca, turde, turfe, turse, tyuc, Tzuke. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, recut.

-1 letter: cure, curt, cute, ecru, true.

-2 letters: cue, cur, cut, ecu, rec, ret, rue, rut.

-3 letters: er, et, re, ut.

+1 letter: acuter, couter, cruets, cruset, curate, curets, curite, curter, curvet, cutler, cutter, eructs, precut, rectum, rectus, recuts, reluct, truced, truces, tucker, uretic.

+2 letters: arcuate, becrust, becurst, butcher, capture, cautery, centaur, centrum, century, chetrum, chunter, cloture, clouter, cluster, clutter, cornute, coulter, counter, courted, courter, couters, couther, couture, crewcut, croquet, crudest, cruelty, crumpet, crusets, crusted, culture, culvert, cuprite, curated, curates, curette, curites, current, curtate, curtest, curtesy, curtsey, curvets, cutlers, cutlery, cutover, cutters, eductor, encrust, eructed, eucrite, facture, furcate, icterus, lecture, outrace, overcut, picture, precuts, racquet, recount, recruit, rectums, relucts, retouch, scouter, scutter, toucher, traduce, trounce, trucked, trucker, truckle, tuckers, uncrate, utricle.