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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A feud between two families or clans that arises out of a slaying and is perpetuated by retaliatory acts of revenge; a blood feud.
  2. n. A bitter, destructive feud.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A condition of private war in which the nearest of kin execute vengeance on the slayer of a relative; a blood-feud In Corsica the vendetta is regarded as a duty incumbent on the family of the murdered man, and, failing to reach the real murderer, they take vengeance on his relatives. The practice exists, although to a more limited extent, in Sicily, Sardinia, Calabria, Afghanistan, etc., and in certain rude and remote districts of the United States.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
  2. n. Any feud or contention that is bitter and prolonged; however, the deep enmity may be held by only one party to the dispute.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other

Etymologies

  1. From Italian vendetta. (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian, from Latin vindicta, revenge; see vindictive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • victoriapl "It seemed to me that he expressed his regret for having passed ten years in vendetta with his good neighbor Orlandi, and he offered him the white hen which he carried as reparation."
    The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas Dec 2, 2007

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