CEASEFIRE Synonyms: 13 Similar and Opposite Words

ceasefire

noun

ˈsēs-ˈfi(-ə)r

variants also cease-fire

Definition of ceasefire

as in truce

a temporary stopping of fighting The two armies declared a ceasefire for the holiday.

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Recent Examples of ceasefire The proposal builds on an earlier agreement to extend a ceasefire, which collapsed in July. — Chloé Farand, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026 On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi proposed a seven-day ceasefire plan that would lift sanctions and open the Strait of Hormuz, which mirrored a deal signed by both presidents last June that quickly fell apart. — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2026 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov repeated Moscow’s demand for a comprehensive peace deal, not a temporary break in hostilities, following Ukraine’s call for a complete and unconditional ceasefire. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 In November 2024, Israel approved a ceasefire deal that required it to withdraw from southern Lebanon, but Israeli forces continued to hold positions beyond the deadline and carried out near-daily strikes, alleging Hezbollah violations of the deal. — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ceasefire

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The official readouts otherwise did not make much headway on major issues, beyond agreeing to keep talking and extending a trade truce — which keeps tariffs lower and rare earths flowing — for another two months.

— Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
Wang expects the trade truce to get extended again next year, noting China has a strong preference for external stability before the Communist Party’s 21st Congress next autumn.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of truce

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The accord was reached Tuesday following a White House meeting attended by executives including SpaceX’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Interim peace accords in the 1990s recognized their water rights but preserved a system that allocated some 80% of water pumped from the main aquifer for Israeli use.

— Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

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