feud
noun
1 feud
A bitter quarrel between two parties.
Roget 780: property, possession, suum cuique [Lat.], meum et tuum [Lat.]. ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority†; empire etc. (dominion) 737. interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure etc. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin [Law], seisin [Law]. absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general. limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie [Fr.]; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility. dower, dowry, jointure†, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy etc. (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds. assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth etc. 803; money etc. 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects. landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground etc. (earth) 342; acquest†, messuage, toft†. territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence. manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium etc. (free) 748†; fief, fieff†, feoff†, feud, zemindary†, dependency; arado†, merestead†, ranch. free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland†; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user. personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage etc. 633. parcels, appurtenances. impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading. rent roll; income etc. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.]. patent, copyright; chose in action; credit etc. 805; debt etc. 806. ... show more
Roget 713: disagreement etc. 24; discord, disaccord†, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling etc. v.; screw loose. variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie [Fr.]; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism etc. (dissent) 489; feud, faction. quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie†, squabble, altercation, barney [Slang], demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow†, words, high words; wrangling etc. v.; jangle, brabble†, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars. polemics; litigation; strife etc. (contention) 720; warfare etc. 722; outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war. broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation†; embroilment, embranglement†, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work [Fr.], scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance etc. (disorder) 59; commotion etc. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair. subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli [Lat.]; question at issue etc. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata quaestio [Lat.], brand of discord. troublous times†; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness etc. adj.; enmity etc. 889; hate etc. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant etc. 710; strange bedfellows. ... show more
is a specific kind of: battle, conflict, struggle.
is a broader term that covers: blood feud, vendetta.
derivation: feudv1.
Dutch: vete
verb
1 feud
Moby thesaurus: acrimony, adverse possession, alodium, altercate, altercation, animosity, animus, antagonism, argument, avengement, bad blood, battle, bicker, bickering, bitter feeling, bitterness, blood feud, box, brawl, broil, burgage, claim, clash, close, collide, colony, combat, come to blows, conflict, contend, contention, contest, controversy, copyhold, cut and thrust, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, differ, disagree, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, duel, embroilment, enmity, equitable estate, estate at sufferance, estate for life, estate for years, estate in expectancy, estate in fee, estate in possession, estate tail, estrangement, exchange blows, fall out, falling-out, fee, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, fence, feod, feodum, feudal estate, fief, fiefdom, fight, fight a duel, flite, fliting, fracas, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, fuss, gavelkind, getting even, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, grudge, hard feelings, hatred, have words, having title to, hold, holding, hostility, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, imbroglio, join issue, jostle, joust, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal estate, legal possession, logomachy, mandate, mix it up, occupancy, occupation, open quarrel, original title, owning, paramount estate, particular estate, polemic, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, quarrel, rancor, rassle, remainder, reprisal, retaliation, revanche, revanchism, revenge, reversion, riot, rivalry, row, run a tilt, run-in, scramble, scuffle, seisin, set to, sharp words, skirmish, slanging match, snarl, socage, soreness, sourness, spar, spat, squabble, squatting, strife, strive, struggle, sublease, sweet revenge, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, thrust and parry, tiff, tilt, title, tourney, tussle, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, vendetta, vengeance, venom, vested estate, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, virulence, vitriol, wage war, war, words, wrangle, wrestle ... show more.
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