blood feud

1. 1.

   a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other

   Synonymsvendetta

   Broaderfeud

Questions about blood feud

What does blood feud mean?

blood feud means "a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other".

What is another word for blood feud?

Close synonyms include vendetta. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood feud a common word?

blood feud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.