"make nice" meaning in English

See make nice in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: makes nice [present, singular, third-person], making nice [participle, present], made nice [participle, past], made nice [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> nice}} make nice (third-person singular simple present makes nice, present participle making nice, simple past and past participle made nice)
  1. (US) To be friendly or conciliatory towards another, often in the context of maintaining good relations or resolving a conflict with the other person. Tags: US Translations (be friendly towards another): 客客氣氣 (Chinese Mandarin), 客客气气 (kèkèqìqì) (Chinese Mandarin), olla ystävällinen (Finnish), olla mieliksi (Finnish), sovitella (Finnish)

Inflected forms

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