feud

About 1.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
3. noun A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
4. verb To carry on a feud.

   The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.

5. noun An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.

Similar words

vendetta dispute contest quarrel bickering conflict strife hostile enmity antagonism

Often followed by

between with and was of in that is which

Word family

feuded feuding feuds