[fyood] 
| 1. | Also called blood feud. a bitter, continuous hostility, esp. between two families, clans, etc., often lasting for many years or generations. |
| 2. | a bitter quarrel or contention: a feud between labor and management. |
| 3. | to engage in a feud. |
| blood feud n. A feud involving the members of a family or clan. |
blood feud
a continuing state of conflict between two groups within a society (typically kinship groups) characterized by violence, usually killings and counterkillings. It exists in many nonliterate communities in which there is an absence of law or a breakdown of legal procedures and in which attempts to redress a grievance in a way that is acceptable to both parties have failed.
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