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Another word for feud

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Noun
      1. A falling out; breaking up of friendly relations
      2. A reason for a dispute or argument:
      3. An angry dispute; an altercation.
      1. Contention or competition between rivals.
      2. The act or state of fighting or quarreling, esp. bitterly; struggle; conflict
      3. A conflict or quarrel:
      1. A series of acts attacking or attempting to injure another:
      2. A feud between two families that arises from the injury or killing of the member of one family by a member of the other family, leading to long-lasting animosity and retaliatory acts of revenge.
      3. Any bitter quarrel or feud
    See also:

    dispute

    fight

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Sentence Examples

  • And yet he knew war was not so simple between two clans with a history of blood feud as theirs had.

  • This ferment of unrest, which was provoked in the years 1903-190 4, was exacerbated in the winters that followed by the renewed outbreak of the century-long racial feud between the Tatars and the Armenians at Baku and other places.

  • But there was an outstanding feud between him and them; and his first act as ethnarch was to remove the high priest on the ground of his sympathy with the rebels.

  • Though the outbreak was unconnected with the religious feud, the latent fanaticism of both creeds was soon aroused, and the island once more became a scene of pillage and devastation.

  • In 1865 a fresh feud occurred between the Orange Free State Boers and the Basuto.

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