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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. Source: Internet

By the time Huck meets them, the Grangerfords have been engaged in an age-old blood feud with another local family, the Shepherdsons. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Source: Internet

The murder triggered an aristocratic blood feud that complicated the French civil wars for years to come. Source: Internet

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