enemy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern French ennemi), from Latin inimīcus, from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”). Displaced Middle English fend (“enemy”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), which survived into Modern English as fiend, but with a different meaning. Doublet of inimic.
Inflected forms:
form: enemies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enemie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: enemies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enemying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enemied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enemied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enemie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
pos: noun
examples: under enemy duress
He made a lot of enemies after reducing the working hours in his department.
You may not want any enemies, but sometimes, your enemies choose you.
If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.
Garrus: Fist knows you're coming. We'll have a better chance if we all work together.
Wrex: My people have a saying: Seek the enemy of your enemy, and you will find a friend.
I am a known enemy and I cannot say more than I already said. And my books and my articles and my magazine- whatever could happen to the publication has already happened. What else? They can kill me. OK, you know, nobody promised me that I'm going to live forever.
gloss: A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
pos: noun
examples: Rally together against a common enemy.
gloss: Something harmful or threatening to another
pos: noun
examples: The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest.
gloss: Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: The building was destroyed by enemy bombing.
gloss: A non-player character that tries to harm the player.
pos: noun
examples: Use gadgets like Nakishkas to fend off enemies.
gloss: To make an enemy of.
pos: verb
examples: These prelates and nobles, seeing themselves dispossessed by the death of this king don Alfonso, to whom they had adhered, and enemied with the king don Enrique his brother, whom they had deserted, were in great fear, dreading the indignation of the king, whom by letters and words they had much injured; and they found no other remedy for their defense but to continue the division which they had begun in the realm, raising for queen of it the princess doña Isabel in place of her brother.
But rather the life He has lived People he met Befriended and enemied
Bureaucracy and wider features of a division of labor also facilitates the “othering” and “enemying” associated with systemic violence and makes possible the professionalization of atrocity.
But these choices came with point values: friending someone who friended you gave each player fifteen points; friending someone who enemied you gave the enemy-er a whopping twenty-five points but lost the friend-er five points; and if both players enemied each other, both got five points.
Synonyms: adversary
antagonist
backfriend
bane
bête noire
corrival
enemy
fiend
foe
foeman
unfriend
nemesis
opponent
opposer
rival
Antonyms: accomplice
ally
friend
pal
partner
supporter
Related words: enmity
inimical
nemesis
frenemy
villain
Derived words: archenemy
be one's own worst enemy
better is the enemy of good
class enemy
enemedia
enemy action
enemy combatant
enemydom
enemyhood
enemy image
enemyism
enemyless
enemy-like
enemylike
enemy line
enemyness
enemy of the people
enemy of the state
enemyship
enemyslash
enemywise
frenemy
how goes the enemy
let the perfect be the enemy of the good
make the perfect the enemy of the good
my enemy's enemy is my friend
nonenemy
no plan survives contact with the enemy
perfection is the enemy of good
perfect is the enemy of good
perfect is the enemy of good enough
public enemy
public enemy number one
the best is the enemy of the good
the better is the enemy of the good
the enemy of my enemy is my friend
the enemy of your enemy is your friend
the perfect is the enemy of the good
worst enemy
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