olive-branch

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. 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!

词形变化

olive-branches present,singular,third-person olive-branching participle,present olive-branched participle,past olive-branched past
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