FEUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feud mean? 

• FEUD (noun)
  The noun FEUD has 1 sense:

1. a bitter quarrel between two parties

  Familiarity information: FEUD used as a noun is very rare.

• FEUD (verb)
  The verb FEUD has 1 sense:

1. carry out a feud

  Familiarity information: FEUD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bitter quarrel between two parties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("feud" is a kind of...):

battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feud"):

blood feud; vendetta (a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other)

Derivation:

feud (carry out a feud)

• FEUD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they feud    ... he / she / it feuds   
Past simple: feuded   
Past participle: feuded   
-ing form: feuding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carry out a feud

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context example:

The two professors have been feuding for years

Hypernyms (to "feud" is one way to...):

contend; fight; struggle (be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

feud (a bitter quarrel between two parties)

 Context examples 

As to the feuds of the two learned men, they are continuous and bitter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The relations among the men, strained and made tense by feuds, quarrels and grudges, were in a state of unstable equilibrium, and evil passions flared up in flame like prairie-grass.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They saw him with the eyes of their ancestors, and by their inherited memory they knew White Fang for the wolf, and they remembered the ancient feud.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I found everything in a satisfactory state at the cottage; and was enabled to gratify my aunt exceedingly by reporting that the tenant inherited her feud, and waged incessant war against donkeys.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It might happen that, should he amass riches by some happy fortune of war, this feud might hold the two families aloof.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A feud, ages old, was between them, and she, for one, would see to it that he was reminded.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I should have remembered that these people have long memories for blood-feuds, and have been more upon my guard.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All feuds and grudges were forgotten, and I was surprised at the alacrity with which the men who had so long endured his brutality sprang to execute his orders.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All the feuds of countless generations, all the hatreds and cruelties of their narrow history, all the memories of ill-usage and persecution were to be purged that day.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)