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feud

Best crossword clue

"Long-running quarrel"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /fjuːd/Part of speech verb, nounSorted defuStarts with FEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A long-running quarrel between people or groups.

Word origin

Inherited from Northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide, feide, fede, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe + -th), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“hostile”).

Used in a sentence

  • You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
  • Wherein my sword had not impressure made / Of our ranke feud: but the iust gods gainsay,
  • 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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