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tice
Plural
armistices
1
a temporary stoppage or truce in hostilities between parties engaged in a war or conflict
- The warring nations signed an armistice agreeing to a one-month ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid delivery and prisoner exchanges.
- After years of bloody fighting, an armistice was at last reached and the battlefield fell silent.
- The armistice allowed both sides to retrieve their wounded and dead from no man's land between the trenches.
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