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feud

/fjud/ noun C1
  1. A state of long-standing mutual hostility. · You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
  2. A staged rivalry between wrestlers.

Plural feuds

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“It must be a very serious feud that would be kept up with such earnestness for as long as that.
The Valley of Fear, p. 52 · C1
The details of the case will probably be never known now, though we are informed upon good authority that the crime was the result of an old standing and romantic feud, in which love and Mormonism bore a part.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 86 · B2
If the case has had no other effect, it, at least, brings out in the most striking manner the efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 86 · B2
“No, sir, the facts were precisely what you have stated,” said Madame de Villefort; “and it was to prevent the renewal of old feuds that M.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 634 · C1

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