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Synonyms for feud

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : fyood
Phonetic Transcription : fyud

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Définition of feud

Origin :
  • c.1300, fede "enmity, hatred, hostility," northern English and Scottish; perhaps from an unrecorded Old English word or else from Old French fede, from Old High German fehida "contention, quarrel, feud," from Proto-Germanic *faihitha noun of state from adj. *faiho- (cf. Old English fæhð "enmity," fah "hostile;" German Fehde "feud;" Old Frisian feithe "enmity;" see foe). Sense of "vendetta" is early 15c. Alteration of spelling in 16c. is unexplained.
  • noun major argument; estrangement
  • verb fight bitterly; fall out
Example sentences :
  • The Lorilleuxs had declared a feud to the death against Gervaise.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • What the feud really was about, they had both nearly forgotten.
  • Extract from : « Tales From Two Hemispheres » by Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen
  • The time for Border feud and skirmish was already well-nigh past.
  • Extract from : « The Balladists » by John Geddie
  • They meet a rancher who loses his heart, and become involved in a feud.
  • Extract from : « The Duke Of Chimney Butte » by G. W. Ogden
  • Why, what should he think,—was there any feud between the families?
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • It is, I hope, unnecessary to say that Godfrey is at feud with the Dean.
  • Extract from : « The Red Hand of Ulster » by George A. Birmingham
  • The Dean went off, and in spite of the feud did ride over to Manor Cross.
  • Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
  • Oh, you do not know how dreadful to be at feud with a man like Fergus Mac-Ivor.
  • Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  • The scout had a feud with that branch of the tribe and was at war with them.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • With the one it's a feud, and with the other it's a lawsuit.
  • Extract from : « Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers » by Ian Maclaren

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