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[ en -uh -mee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈɛn ə mi / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun, plural en·e·mies. 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.
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective belonging to a hostile power or to any of its nationals: enemy property.
Obsolete . inimical; ill-disposed.
Origin of enemy First recorded in 1300–1350; Middle English enemi, from Anglo-French, Old French, from Latin inimicus “unfriendly,” equivalent to in- in-3 + amicus “friendly, friend”; see amicable
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synonym study for enemy 1 . Enemy, foe refer to a dangerous public or personal adversary. Enemy emphasizes the idea of hostility: to overcome the enemy; a bitter enemy. Foe, a more literary word, may be used interchangeably with enemy, but emphasizes somewhat more the danger to be feared from such a one: deadly foe; arch foe of humankind ( the Devil ).
grammar notes for enemy See collective noun.
OTHER WORDS FROM enemy non·en·e·my, noun, plural non·en·e·mies. Words nearby enemy endysis, end zone, ENE, ENEA, enema, enemy , enemy alien, energetic, energetics, energid, energism
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Example sentences from the Web for enemy You and your enemy each had 100 soldiers to distribute, any way you liked, to fight at any of the 13 castles.
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He will stand up to our enemies like Putin and aid our allies.
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You and your enemy each have 100 soldiers to distribute, any way you like, to fight at any of the 13 castles.
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An app could react more quickly than a human to what an enemy aircraft does, for example.
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Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines even threatened to treat citizens who defied lockdown orders as enemy soldiers and shoot them.
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It was followed by several told-you-so articles with titles like “Have No Illusion: Islam Is the Enemy .”
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In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”
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“Do not use complaints, courts and lawyers to beat and to silence the enemy ,” the NOA activists wrote.
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In the event, the enemy did plenty—far more than SHAEF, or for that matter the German high command, imagined possible.
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That means it could take several missile shots to kill an enemy fighter, even for an advanced stealth aircraft like the Raptor.
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The enemy immediately withdrew, and never appeared again in 1917 in this neighbourhood.
The Crisis of the Naval War | John Rushworth Jellicoe
Once more it was shown how weak an arm is artillery against an enemy who lies in shelter.
The Great Boer War | Arthur Conan Doyle
The cardinal wanted a benefice for one of his followers, and the Pope wished to get his son's enemy once more into his power.
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On the 6th the enemy occupied Hagerstown, moving a strong column toward Frederick City.
Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers | J. Newton Terrill
Captain Langdon being of the same opinion, the signal was thrown out to make all sail to close the enemy .
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British Dictionary definitions for enemy noun plural -mies 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
Other words from enemy Related adjective: inimical Word Origin for enemy C13: from Old French enemi, from Latin inimīcus hostile, from in- 1 + amīcus friend
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