blood feud

• Conflit long et acharné entre familles ou clans, impliquant souvent un cycle de meurtres par vengeance ou de représailles violentes sur plusieurs générations.

A long and bitter conflict between families or clans, often involving a cycle of revenge killings or violent retaliation over generations.

1. Long-standing violent conflictC1formal

   A prolonged and bitter conflict between families or clans, often involving revenge killings.

   vendetta

   • The two families have been locked in a blood feud for generations.
   • The blood feud began after a dispute over land ownership.
   • Efforts to mediate the blood feud have so far failed.