enemy
IPA: ˈɛnʌmi
noun
- Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
- A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
- Something harmful or threatening to another
- (attributive) Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
- (video games) A non-player character that tries to harm the player.
verb
- To make an enemy of.
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Examples of "enemy" in Sentences
- He is, indeed, called an enemy to pilgrims, and the laft enemy*.
- The use of the term enemy is significant to me, as is the word speaking.
- The Obama administration has since abandoned using the term "enemy combatant."
- Our main enemy is not primarily the Mahdi army or any of the factions in Iraq but Ahmadinejad and the mullahocracy in Iran.
- LOU DOBBS, HOST: Tonight the Obama administration abandons the term enemy combatants for terror suspects held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- The term enemy combatant has been used for decades to define members of a military who engage in activities such as sabotage and espionage that occur outside normal combat.
- McCain's confusion about who our main enemy is seems to be part of a troubling pattern, and I have predicted that this will have serious political ramifications in the coming months.
- Nevertheless I continued my course towards the enemy, that to the number of twenty ships had been seen since eight o'clock at S.S.W. My opinion as to the state of the ships of the squadron remaining still indecisive, in the afternoon I desired to know _if it was advisable to attack the enemy_; the ships Concepcion, Mexicano, San Pablo,
- Timeline: Walter Cronkite’s Life and Career The trouble began when the moderator asked Jennings what he would do if, during a war between the U.S. and another country, he’d been given the chance to travel with the enemy and report from behind his lines — only to discover, from this vantage point, that the enemy was about to spring a trap and mow the Americans down.
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