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vendetta

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun vendetta has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

vendettan. [It.].
  •  A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Any feud or contention that is bitter and prolonged; however, the deep enmity may be held by only one party to the dispute; as, the former Mayor nurtured a lifelong vendetta against the candidate who defeated him.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vendetta, n.
1 a a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family. b this practice as prevalent in Corsica and Sicily.
2 a prolonged bitter quarrel.

Etymology
It. f. L vindicta: see VINDICTIVE

THESAURUS

vendetta

acrimony, altercation, animosity, animus, argument, avengement, bad blood, bicker, bitter feeling, bitterness, blood feud, brawl, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, feud, fight, fliting, fracas, fuss, getting even, hard feelings, hatred, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, imbroglio, logomachy, open quarrel, polemic, quarrel, rancor, reprisal, retaliation, revanche, revanchism, revenge, rhubarb, rivalry, row, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, soreness, sourness, spat, squabble, strife, sweet revenge, tiff, tussle, vengeance, venom, virulence, vitriol, words, wrangle

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vendetta

Revenge

N revenge, revengement, vengeance, avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation, day of reckoning, rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness, avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides, revengeful, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus, rankling, immitigable, manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum, dies irae dies illa, in high vengeance there is noble scorn, inhumanum verbum est ultio, malevolus animus abditos dentes habet, now infidel I have thee on the hip.

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