feud

Object

• faction: He devoted the rest of his life to uniting China's feuding factions.
• family: From the opening scenes of the play these two children of feuding families were destined to fall.. .

Converse of object

• continue: Both these killings were part of the continuing feud between the two wings of the IRA.
• run: They might have a running feud or they might simply not get on with one an other.
• start: We haven't started a feud with him or nothing.
• end: Elton John ends feud with George Michael ( AP via Yahoo!
• follow: The murders followed a feud over ice-cream routes connected with the distribution of drugs.

Adjective modifier

• long-running: Have a good life. Jennifer Aniston believes a new baby will help end her long-running feud with her mother, Nancy Dow.
• bitter: Julia Roberts has spoken to her mother for the first time in six months healing a bitter family feud.
• long-standing: Philip's war with Edward I was the result of a long-standing feud over England's possessions in France.
• petty: They are, of course, equally divided in petty feuds of their own.
• deadly: They had long been at deadly feud with Jager.
• bloody: The girls were shot dead - innocent victims caught up in a bloody feud between two notorious street gangs.

Preposition: between

• clan: There are a large number of accounts, dating to the Medieval and Post-Medieval periods, relating to the feuds between different clans.
• wing: Both these killings were part of the continuing feud between the two wings of the IRA.
• family: He should have acted earlier to stop the feud between the two families.

Noun used with modifier

• loyalist: Is he aware of what appears to be a loyalist feud in which there are attacks by loyalists on other loyalists?
• clan: Strome Castle, overlooking loch, blown up during 1603 clan feud.
• blood: A blood feud can start over any number of causes - an untoward advance to a woman or the killing of a sheep dog.
• family: Julia Roberts has spoken to her mother for the first time in six months healing a bitter family feud.