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US
/ˈɛnəmi/
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[ UK /ˈɛnəmi/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛnəmi/ ]
NOUN
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any hostile group of people
he viewed lawyers as the real enemy -
a personal enemy
they had been political foes for years -
an opposing military force
the enemy attacked at dawn -
an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies
How To Use enemy In A Sentence
- This paper summarized Ectropis obliqua Prout s biological control researches from the point of mass rearing, pathogenic natural enemy, predator, parasitoid and pheromone.
- Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
- enemy fire was intense
- On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
- Using the manual option allows you to attempt to disable the enemy boat's sails with chain shot, destroy the boat's hull with cannonballs, or kill off the crew with grapeshot.
- One of the first aims of propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy in the public mind.
- Granted, people often clump together for mutual protection from an outside enemy. Christianity Today
- She was still my sworn enemy who was trying to tear me down in whatever way possible.
- The massacre was carried out by enemy troops.
- Consequently a number of Navajo Indians were drafted into the US army as radiomen, and would have soldiers assigned to them to protect them and prevent them falling into enemy hands.