feud

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1. feud - Noun

2. feud - Verb

Meaning

A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

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I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her. Emma Roberts

Perhaps people throw themselves into heated polemics to give content to their lives, to warm their hearts. What Luther said of hatred is true of all quarreling. There is nothing like a feud to make life seem full and interesting. Eric Hoffer

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. Ernest Thompson Seton

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. Leslie Charteris

Don't meddle with a family feud. African Proverb

A fair offer is nae feud. Scottish Proverb

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