feud

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long and bitter quarrel between people, families, or groups, sometimes involving violence

   The dispute over the boundary grew into a feud that lasted for three generations.

2. 2
   verb

   to remain involved in a long and bitter quarrel

   The neighboring families had feuded over the land for decades.

From Northern Middle English fede or feide, through Old French faide, from a Germanic word for hostility or enmity. It is related to Old English faehthu ("hostility, revenge") and cognate with German Fehde and Dutch vete.

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