vendetta

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Revenge.
2. noun A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.

   The families had been locked in a bitter vendetta for generations.

3. noun A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone.

   personal vendetta

Similar words

blood feud feud retaliation retribution revenge vengeance vindictiveness payback revanche countervengeance

Often followed by

against and of in with was between is to

Word family

vendettas