noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bitter rival/enemy (= a rival/enemy who you have strong feelings of dislike or anger about )
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The two men are bitter rivals for the party leadership.
an enemy spy
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He gave information to enemy spies.
enemy action
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The ship was damaged by enemy action.
enemy fighters
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He was shot down by enemy fighters .
enemy forces
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Enemy forces now occupy substantial areas of the city.
enemy lines
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One regiment was trapped behind enemy lines .
enemy propaganda
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He was charged with ‘distributing enemy propaganda’.
enemy troops
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His platoon was captured by enemy troops.
enemy/hostile territory
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Patterson had never flown so deep into enemy territory before.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
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Both Rennenkampf and Samsonov had distinguished military records as cavalry commanders in Manchuria, but they had quarrelled and become bitter enemies .
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The southern conviction that the Republicans were bitter enemies of slavery precipitated this decision.
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In the course of time he and Richard were to become fellow-crusaders and bitter enemies .
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The two neighbors fought a war from 1980 to 1988 and still are bitter enemies .
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He felt humiliated and helpless; his bitter enemy and master, Hassanali Fakhru, stood in the doorway and spoke.
deadly
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Mr Roberts and I are deadly enemies .
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They're deadly enemies , those two.
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The two rapidly became deadly enemies .
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Her tranquil life was threatened by the coming of a man whom she regarded as her deadly enemy .
great
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Its greatest enemy is inner peace.
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For a time, none the less, the Congregationalist clergy closed ranks around the Suspect Mayhew against the great enemy that Caner represented.
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The forest had cornered its greatest enemy , and would show no mercy.
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But here was the great enemy of my people lying deathly ill and I had nothing going.
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Pessimism about the nature of old age is perhaps the greatest enemy of a happy and fulfilled old age.
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The desire for economic security was long considered the great enemy of increased production.
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Cold, if he lay here too long, might be a greater enemy to him now than anything else.
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Verisof, next to Salvor Hardin, is your greatest enemy .
ill
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Like all good conspiracy theories, the polio vaccine theory's originators are its worst enemies .
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We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
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In other words, we are our own worst enemy .
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People are their own worst enemies .
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I hope you can enjoy it, but if not, give it to your worst enemy .
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To what extent would she say she was her own worst enemy ?
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Players can be real snobs about names, too, so they are their own worst enemies .
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I say, Hey, Legs, you and Schultz, you supposed to be the worst enemies .
mortal
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It was also the mortal enemy of horses and would rip them apart in seconds with its mighty talons.
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I remembered doing this sort of stuff in sixth grade with my mortal enemy , Tommy Jancko.
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Well, it might be a big one with a misleading number-plate which simply doesn't stop that gets your mortal enemy .
natural
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In classical biological control, a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence.
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Reactive techniques like reorganization, retrenchment, and restriction are the natural enemies of organizational innovation.
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The doctrine rested on the assumption that the country had no natural enemies and advanced no territorial claims on its neighbours.
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The pesticide killed off weevils and other insects, leaving the army worm to multiply unchecked by its natural enemies .
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The plant toxin renders both the caterpillar and the adult butterfly particularly repellent to natural enemies .
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Much more can be done to improve the conservation of natural enemies in the field.
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In the wild, the pair would be natural enemies .
old
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The old enemies become friends again as they organise the meeting to discuss the raid.
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History will not judge us by whether we get these old enemies to peace talks.
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Did he not choose to retreat when his old enemy Rennenkampf was advancing?
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Now time, my old enemy , was precious to me.
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He wants to, but his attempts are thwarted by an old enemy who could harm his wife's business.
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Sharpe, his telescope open, stared down at the old , familiar enemy .
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But the battle is essentially between the old enemies , Conservative and Labour.
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He put his old enemy , corporate power, in the firing line.
political
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Wagner, in retreat from pursuing creditors and political enemies , was one.
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Still, Arpaio counts the supervisors as political enemies .
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As some of his political enemies in Knowsley North might say, he would, wouldn't he?
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Rehnquist was also a great scholar and a formidable intellect; no one insisted on this more forcefully than his political enemies .
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Some have even said the killing was faked to allow Marlowe to escape his political enemies .
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The corruption purges, for example, were targeted at his political enemies , he noted.
sworn
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More and more the sworn enemies of Tokugawa political power openly flouted Bakufu authority.
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This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies .
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In the Fifties they were sworn enemies .
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It is a strange sister party which wants to see Labour's sworn enemies back in power.
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One minute they were sworn enemies , the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
■ NOUN
action
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He showed great fortitude and tenacity in carrying on his professional work in spite of adversity resulting from enemy action .
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Between 1939 and 1945, 80,000 men, women and children were killed by enemy action on the Home Front.
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Always known as Wesley's Cottage it was destroyed by enemy action in May 1941.
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Sadly, he says, all the actual trophies were destroyed by enemy action during the war.
aircraft
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Delight died at six thirty-eight a.m. when the first enemy aircraft appeared from the west.
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Tanimizu is said to have shot down 32 enemy aircraft .
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Probably due to the confusion no one thought of asking the radar station at Opana in which direction the enemy aircraft headed.
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Should our carriers become separated during attacks by enemy aircraft , they will endeavor to remain within visual touch.
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Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours.
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Allied spokesmen make light of the fact that so many enemy aircraft remain intact.
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Truck after truck was set ablaze and each fire acted as a homing beacon for more enemy aircraft .
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Finlayson spent fifteen minutes teaching Tribe the signals, and describing the blind spots of enemy aircraft .
fighter
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I instructed Peter to keep a sharp lookout for enemy fighters and then to follow me.
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For this expenditure, intelligence estimated that 231 enemy fighters were killed.
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Antiaircraft fire had become greatly intensified, but in my continued observations I saw no enemy fighter planes.
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As many as 60 enemy fighters flew abreast of the Group, then turned and attacked in formation, using saturation tactics.
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No enemy fighters were in the air, nor were there any gun flashes from the ground.
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Only a few, isolated bursts of flak were seen and no enemy fighters were encountered.
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About four enemy fighters which took off were promptly shot down.
fire
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She kept moving, and the enemy fire kept missing her.
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The tracks began turning around to face the enemy fire .
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Columns of men in close order moved slowly and were very exposed to enemy fire .
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This was an activity not much favoured at Verdun, as it invariably attracted a tornado of enemy fire .
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A huge explosion drowned the enemy fire and Killion caught a glimpse of a burning bomber slowly sliding along on its nose.
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We were under enemy fire all the time, being shelled with Stukas coming down.
force
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Duke Wolf, believes that the enemy forces could have seized Dau Tieng had they realized how weak defenses had become.
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The Combined Fleet operation order gives first priority to the destruction of enemy forces .
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Being tested was: Can small units, equipped with high-tech gizmos, stop or slow down a much larger enemy force ?
lines
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If I didn't have that curiosity I would walk into enemy lines and let myself be killed.
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Officially, Ben Malcom was not 125 miles behind enemy lines .
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The design resulted from an Air Ministry requirement for the rapid, accurate delivery of specialist troops and agents behind enemy lines .
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Many bombing and rocket strikes were carried out against enemy lines of communication and supplies.
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The Duchess of Finchley's Light Infantry was trapped behind enemy lines , but it was digging in.
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In fact, he had been taken prisoner after going behind enemy lines to retrieve the body of a friend.
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Knowing this as the Empire player means that you can position your volley guns to block obvious enemy lines of advance.
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Those who joined knew full well that they were liable to be dropped behind enemy lines .
territory
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They were flying steadily eastwards, deeper into enemy territory .
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It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory , excluding the requirement of combat.
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The Labour movement might not be a home for lesbians and gays, but it was certainly no longer enemy territory .
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Bosnia, it has been determined by some one, is considered enemy territory .
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She remains for him, even in modernity, enemy territory .
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The prize may be to seize the enemy territory , but that is a small reward for so dangerous a business.
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It was about laying waste enemy territory , about the pursuit of a retreating army, about sieges.
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No army would advance into enemy territory and carelessly leave behind it important pockets of resistance.
unit
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They need a clear line of sight to shoot and will tear through several ranks of an enemy unit .
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The elaborate nets thrown out by air proved far too porous to trap major enemy units .
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It is perfectly capable of wiping out even the largest enemy unit .
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Better yet, from the point of view of headquarters, was intelligence revealing the general whereabouts of an enemy unit .
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Mortars, especially, are very nasty against large enemy units .
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Several times, sweeps through rough terrain, which had previously yielded nothing, resulted in the discovery of enemy units .
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When this happens work out the effect just as if it were an enemy unit .
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At the same time use your supporting troops to tie up the enemy units you want to keep out of the way.
■ VERB
attack
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Either we attack the enemy positions, or they are going to attack us in strength.
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We would hide in rice fields, jungles, and swamps, and we would attack when the enemy was off guard.
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Meanwhile the swordsmen move round to attack the enemy in the sides or to protect the halberdiers against a flanking attack.
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It viewed the Marshalls attack merely as an enemy attempt to divert strength from our southern operations.
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The less energy spent in defending, the more strength remains to attack and defeat the enemy .
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The second alternative system would attack enemy missiles right after launch, instead of in space.
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I suddenly realise that we are attacking the enemy positions and we are now running through the trees.
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Early in 1258, when the king attacked his enemies amongst the city's rulers, Fitzthomas escaped unscathed.
become
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They become instant targets for enemy war machines!
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However, when you are an entrepreneur, networking, unless properly controlled, can become your biggest enemy .
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He responded defensively, becoming eventually what his enemies had called him all along: a dictator.
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And, like Feingold, Gross became an enemy of the people.
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It's a constant amazement how an apparently harmless piece of rubbish can become an animal's enemy .
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The two rapidly became deadly enemies .
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Persons become friends or enemies according to the trend of circumstance..
defeat
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The re-enactment with a water bottle celebrated the goal that defeated the auld enemy .
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They were finally defeated and no other enemy entered Attica as long as Theseus lived.
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The less energy spent in defending, the more strength remains to attack and defeat the enemy .
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El Cid upholds his honour and that of his King by defeating an enemy champion in single combat.
destroy
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It had the job of destroying the enemy headquarters.
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His conclusion also was that our next operation must be an all-out effort to destroy the enemy carriers.
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It is they who carry out the traditional infantry role of closing with and destroying the enemy .
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Eyeless at Gaza, Samson struggled to regain the power to pull down the pillars that destroyed him and his enemies together.
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You flew to destroy the enemy .
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Always known as Wesley's Cottage it was destroyed by enemy action in May 1941.
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Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars.
face
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To help you remember it is a good idea to turn the catapult round so it faces away from the enemy .
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Some of them were unable to hide their disappointment at being cheated out of the chance of facing the enemy .
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The tracks began turning around to face the enemy fire.
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Having no better plan, she decided to act upon it, stopped in her tracks, turned and faced her enemy .
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In an ideal world you'd have sufficient troops of each type to pick the perfect force for facing any particular enemy .
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Mr Komarek may have some influential friends, but he also faces powerful enemies .
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Lampard had the body of the Oberst placed at the side of the trail, pistol in hand, facing the enemy .
fight
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They fought back as the enemy continued to bomb hangars and parked aircraft.
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He could fight an enemy , but not this undefinable emptiness.
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The athlete then fights off enemies with sword and pistol.
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He would fight the enemy in a good cause: denial of justice.
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The men fought the enemy and the flames at the same time.
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All the crew may fight against any enemy in contact with the War Wagon, whether to its front, sides, or rear.
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Ridicule, imprisonment or even death may be used against those who will not fight the socially defined enemy .
kill
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Between 1939 and 1945, 80,000 men, women and children were killed by enemy action on the Home Front.
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It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory, excluding the requirement of combat.
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They lived like nomads, ambushing, killing the enemy , moving on.
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He seemed glad to find Petey rocketing around and killing his enemies .
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At puberty, males become warriors and killing an enemy is often a prerequisite of attaining full adult status.
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They eventually suffered from an embarrassment of riches: they laughingly killed all their enemies and created their worst nightmare.
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Kenjutsu was not a sport: it was simply the art of killing an enemy as quickly as possible.
swear
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Woolley swore , cursing the enemy into flames.
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Also playing a key role as protagonists and unlikely allies are two former sworn enemies , both ladinos.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be your own worst enemy
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In other words, we are our own worst enemy.
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My father was his own worst enemy.
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People are their own worst enemies.
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Players can be real snobs about names, too, so they are their own worst enemies.
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To what extent would she say she was her own worst enemy?
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You could say that Gilly is her own worst enemy.
deadly enemy
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Her tranquil life was threatened by the coming of a man whom she regarded as her deadly enemy.
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Mr Roberts and I are deadly enemies.
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The two rapidly became deadly enemies.
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They're deadly enemies, those two.
mortal enemy/foe
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I remembered doing this sort of stuff in sixth grade with my mortal enemy, Tommy Jancko.
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It was also the mortal enemy of horses and would rip them apart in seconds with its mighty talons.
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Well, it might be a big one with a misleading number-plate which simply doesn't stop that gets your mortal enemy.
public enemy number one
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She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
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Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
sworn enemies
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Also playing a key role as protagonists and unlikely allies are two former sworn enemies, both ladinos.
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In the Fifties they were sworn enemies.
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It is a strange sister party which wants to see Labour's sworn enemies back in power.
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More and more the sworn enemies of Tokugawa political power openly flouted Bakufu authority.
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One minute they were sworn enemies, the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
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This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an enemy of the Jewish people
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Britain and France decided to unite and fight against their common enemy .
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Did your husband have any enemies?
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Even though these soldiers were our enemies, I felt desperately sorry for them.
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My parents sometimes seem to treat me as if I was their enemy .
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One man was ordered to observe enemy aircraft and to warn when danger was imminent.
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the enemies of democracy
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The detective wanted to know whether the dead man had had any enemies.
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the president's political enemies were quick to denounce him.
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They accused him of giving secret information to the enemy .
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You cannot attack an enemy unless you have precise information about their numbers and position.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And because the enemies should be allies, the clash is poignant.
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And still there was not a scrap of information about enemy naval forces.
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As a consequence the houseworker stands indicted as the worst enemy the environment has.
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Fatigue had made him slothful, and now he'd let his enemies get dangerously close.
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If I didn't have that curiosity I would walk into enemy lines and let myself be killed.
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The enemy should be totally unaware of their arrival.
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The new religion considered the body, and its animal desires, as the enemy of true reason.