All 13 Uses
feud
in
I Am Malala
(Edited)
- We fight and feud among ourselves so much that our word for cousin—tarbur—is the same as our word for enemy.
p. 14.4feud = bitterly argue or fight
- Her grandmother—my great-grandmother—was widowed when her children were young, and her eldest son, Janser Khan, was locked up because of a tribal feud with another family when he was only twenty-five.
p. 22.5feud = bitter fight
- Each khan kept hundreds of armed men both for feuds and to raid and loot other villages.
p. 24.6feuds = bitter fights
- As the Yousafzai in Swat had no ruler, there were constant feuds between the khans and even within their own families.
p. 24.7
- She says he didn't even notice, as he would set off early every morning after a breakfast of cornbread and cream, his German pistol strapped under his arm, and spend his days busy with local politics or resolving feuds.
p. 40.7feuds = bitter arguments
- We have a custom called swara by which a girl can be given to another tribe to resolve a feud.
p. 67.1feud = bitter argument of fight
- In our village there was a widow called Soraya who married a widower from another clan which had a feud with her family.
p. 67.2
- We knew many victims of feuds.
p. 73.5feuds = bitter fights
- As a respected man in the community, my father was often called on to mediate feuds.
p. 73.9feuds = bitter arguments
- They had been locked in a feud for so long no one even seemed to remember how it had started—probably some small slight, as we are a hot-headed people.
p. 74.1 *feud = bitter argument of fight
- It was as if there were a feud between two brothers and they agreed to live in different houses.
p. 91.6
- People began going to Fazlullah and his men to resolve grievances about anything from business matters to personal feuds.
p. 119.6feuds = bitter fights
- The army had also insisted Zahid Khan was shot in a family feud and not by the Taliban.
p. 280.2feud = bitter fight
Definitions:
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(1)
(feud) bitter hostile argument between two parties -- typically long-standing between families or tribes with occasional incidents of violenceSometimes the term blood feud is used to reference a feud between families.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)