ENEMY


Meaning of ENEMY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ enəmi ]

( enemies)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If someone is your enemy , they hate you or want to harm you.

N-COUNT

2.

If someone is your enemy , 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.

N-COUNT

3.

The enemy 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 enemy were pursued for two miles...

He searched the skies for enemy bombers.

N-SING-COLL : the N , N n

4.

If one thing is the enemy of another thing, the second thing cannot happen or succeed because of the first thing. ( FORMAL )

Reform, as we know, is the enemy of revolution.

N-COUNT : usu sing , N of n

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