Definition of "blood-feud" [blood-feud]

• A feud arising from vengeance for a murder. See vendetta. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "By the same token, Nalasu could not tell Jerry of the blood-feud with the Annos, nor of how he had lost his eyesight."
• "As the lights dimmed and the flickering New York blood-feud began it was obvious this cross-section of late-night Londoners was split for a favourite as jaunty optimism and defeatist pessimism vied noisily through each successive unrelenting round of, in turn, skill, passion, bitterness, and defiant courage of shuddering intensity."
• "Most locals apparently believed that the compound housed either a Pashtun family involved in a tribal blood-feud or a drug smuggling operation."