(enemies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If someone is your ~, they hate you or want to harm you.
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2.
If someone is your ~, they are opposed to you and to what you think or do.
The Government’s political enemies were quick to pick up on this series of disasters.
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3.
The ~ is an army or other force that is opposed to you in a war, or a country with which your country is at war.
The ~ were pursued for two miles...
He searched the skies for ~ bombers.
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4.
If one thing is the ~ of another thing, the second thing cannot happen or succeed because of the first thing. (FORMAL)
Reform, as we know, is the ~ of revolution.
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