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- ▪ end a quarrel or conflict and become friendly
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American English idiom meaning "to make peace"
"Bury the hatchet" is an American English idiom meaning "to make peace". The phrase is an allusion to the figurative or literal practice of putting away weapons at the cessation of hostilities among or by Native Americans in the Eastern United States. Wikipedia