TRUCE Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

truce

noun

ˈtrüs

Definition of truce next

as in armistice

a temporary stopping of fighting both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve

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Recent Examples of truce Meantime, Republicans have been locked in a bruising Senate fight for months, with little sign of a truce. —

Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026 While a truce was declared in April 2022, a comprehensive peace deal is yet to be struck. —

Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026 Over time, Ukraine’s strength has eroded, resulting in a weaker position from which to negotiate a truce. —

Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026 Still, there’s an unsettling calm, an attunement to the fragile truce between humankind and the capricious planet that nourishes it. —

Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for truce

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Noun

On this day in 1918: About a month after an armistice between Germany and the Allied Nations to end World War I, women were allowed to vote for the first time in the U.K. general election.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
The Korean Peninsula has been divided ever since a brutal war between the North and South ended with an armistice agreement in 1953.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025