vendetta
noun /venˈdetə/
/venˈdetə/
- a long period of violence between two families or groups, in which people are murdered in return for previous murders synonym feudTopics Opinion and argumentc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- personal
- political
- conduct
- pursue
- wage
- …
- vendetta against
- vendetta (against somebody) a long argument or campaign in which one person or group does or says things to harm another
- He has accused the media of pursuing a vendetta against him.
- She conducted a personal vendetta against me.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- personal
- political
- conduct
- pursue
- wage
- …
- vendetta against
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Italian, from Latin vindicta ‘vengeance’.