enemy
a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.
an armed foe; an opposing military force: The army attacked the enemy at dawn.
a hostile nation or state.
a citizen of such a state.
enemies, persons, nations, etc., that are hostile to one another: Let's make up and stop being enemies.
something harmful or prejudicial: His unbridled ambition is his worst enemy.
the Enemy, the Devil; Satan.
belonging to a hostile power or to any of its nationals: enemy property.
Obsolete. inimical; ill-disposed.
Origin of enemy
1synonym study For enemy
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- non·en·e·my, noun, plural non·en·e·mies.
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How to use enemy in a sentence
You and your enemy each had 100 soldiers to distribute, any way you liked, to fight at any of the 13 castles.
He will stand up to our enemies like Putin and aid our allies.
You and your enemy each have 100 soldiers to distribute, any way you like, to fight at any of the 13 castles.
An app could react more quickly than a human to what an enemy aircraft does, for example.
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But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”
Here’s the Lost Judd Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Episode, Penned by Judd Apatow | Asawin Suebsaeng | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTScott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public enemy.
Remembering ESPN’s Sly, Cocky, and Cool Anchor Stuart Scott | Stereo Williams | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“Do not use complaints, courts and lawyers to beat and to silence the enemy,” the NOA activists wrote.
In the event, the enemy did plenty—far more than SHAEF, or for that matter the German high command, imagined possible.
If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonIn this situation we waited the motion of the enemy, without perceiving any advancement they made towards us.
When a man converses with himself, he is sure that he does not converse with an enemy.
The enemy were pursued and annoyed by a few hundred of the citizens under Wooster and Arnold; the former was killed.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellIt was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
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British Dictionary definitions for enemy
/ (ˈɛnəmɪ) /
a person hostile or opposed to a policy, cause, person, or group, esp one who actively tries to do damage; opponent
an armed adversary; opposing military force
(as modifier): enemy aircraft
a hostile nation or people
(as modifier): an enemy alien
something that harms or opposes; adversary: courage is the enemy of failure
Origin of enemy
1Other words from enemy
- Related adjective: inimical
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