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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
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!
That was intricate reporting plus reasoning plus olive-branching and remonstrating.
The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.
“Let me help you out,” I olive-branched him, “I do know what you pulled me for; I crossed the double yellow line.
Use olive-branch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Olive-branch means To extend an olive branch; to make a peace offering; to attempt to restore peaceful relations..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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!
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