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blood feud

blood feud

noun

  1. a feud in which the members of hostile families or clans murder each other


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blood feud1

First recorded in 1855–60

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Example Sentences

And what may have started out as a blood feud inside the Kim family could shake more than just the regime.

We have seen you forego a blood feud and do well to the innocent man whom our faith would have bidden you slay, and it is good.

The blood-feud was now old, but Elsung yearned to avenge it on Page 418 Theodoric.

The Athenian law was a civilised modification of the savage rule that the kindred of a slain man take up his blood-feud.

Three times the old blood-feud had broken into sporadic outbursts, and three men had been shot.

A private venture might be fitted out—and there were many who had a blood-feud with Sharkey—but what could a private venture do?

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