Meaning of Feud | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
2. An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
3. A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
4. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
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Examples

“You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.”

“Mr. Cumming’s Dionysus in “The Bacchae” is conceived as a rock star, the rhythm-and-blues Maenads as his backup singers and groupies, and his feud with his cousin Pentheus, king of Thebes, as an encounter of the hedonistic, ambigendered, exotic Other, with “the fear of letting that into your culture,” Mr. Tiffany said.”

“The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.”

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