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enemy
[ en-uh-mee ]
noun
- a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.
Synonyms: antagonist
Antonyms: friend
- an armed foe; an opposing military force:
The army attacked the enemy at dawn.
Antonyms: ally
- 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.
adjective
- belonging to a hostile power or to any of its nationals:
enemy property.
- Obsolete. inimical; ill-disposed.
enemy
/ ˈɛnəmɪ /
noun
- 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
Grammar Note
Other Words From
- non·ene·my noun plural nonenemies
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of enemy1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
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.
Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines even threatened to treat citizens who defied lockdown orders as enemy soldiers and shoot them.
But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.
In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”
Scott, who died Sunday at 49, could go from evoking a Baptist preacher to quoting Public Enemy.
“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.
In 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.
It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
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