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blood feud
blood feud
noun
- a feud in which the members of hostile families or clans murder each other
Word History and Origins
Origin of blood feud1
Example Sentences
Horses snorting and guns blazing, these dueling groups work through a blood feud where the lines between good guys and bad blur.
Royal children born in a castle or a palace came into a world often riven with blood feuds, the claims of rival heirs, and other assorted dysfunctions.
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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