Vendetta ultimately traces to the Latin verb vindicta, meaning "revenge" or "vindication." That Latin word is also in the family tree of other English terms related to getting even, including avenge, revenge, vengeance, vindicate, and vindictive.
VENDETTA definition: 1. a long and violent argument between people or families, in which one group tries to harm the…. Learn more.
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. Definition of vendetta noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
VENDETTA definition: a private feud in which the members of the family of a murdered person seek to avenge the murder by killing the slayer or one of the slayer's relatives, especially such vengeance as once practiced in Corsica and parts of Italy.
He waged a personal vendetta against his rivals in the Senate. She claims that the police have a vendetta against her. [=that the police are deliberately and unfairly trying to cause trouble for her]
VENDETTA meaning: 1. a long and violent argument between people or families, in which one group tries to harm the…. Learn more.
Vendetta is a 2022 American action-thriller revenge film written and directed by Jared Cohn and starring Clive Standen, Theo Rossi, Mike Tyson, Thomas Jane, and Bruce Willis.
vendetta (plural vendettas or vendette) Revenge. A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud. The families had been locked in a bitter vendetta for generations.