blood feud
Noun
Meaning
a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other
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A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos.
By the time Huck meets them, the Grangerfords have been engaged in an age-old blood feud with another local family, the Shepherdsons.
Consumed by his blood feud and the ravages of a hostile world, 's Michelangelo is a beaten, battered and battle-weary warrior who openly considers seppuku.
He befriends Buck Grangerford, a boy about his age, and learns that the Grangerfords are engaged in a 30-year blood feud against another family, the Shepherdsons.
He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court.
The murder triggered an aristocratic blood feud that complicated the French civil wars for years to come.