Enemy

Definition: Enemy

Enemy

Adjective

1. Of or belonging to an enemy; "enemy planes".

Noun

1. An opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn".

2. An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies".

3. Any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy".

4. A personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "enemy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Enemy \En"e*my\, adjective. Hostile; inimical. [Obsolete]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Enemy

Drunkenness

Phrase: nunc est bibendum; "Bacchus ever fair and young"; "drink down all unkindness"; "O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains".

Enemy

Public enemy, enemy to society.

Noun: enemy; antagonist; foe, foeman; open enemy, bitter enemy; opponent; back friend.

Hate

Repugnance; (dislike); misanthropy, demonophobia, gynephobia, negrophobia; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, b_te noire; enemy; bitter pill; source of annoyance.

Improbity

Disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy.

Opponent

Noun: opponent, antagonist, adversary; adverse party, opposition; enemy; the other side; assailant.

Satan

The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon.

Success

Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.

Untruth

Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.

Crosswords: Enemy

In exactly five hours and 17 minutes, we hit the enemy toast (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

You can't give the enemy a break (The Longest Day; writing credit: Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, Cornelius Ryan, and Jack Seddon. based on the book by Cornelius Ryan.)

Ancient enemy make prayer about these people you wish to hear (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone)

You can call it the enemy if you want to, but it's part of us; we're all men. (The Enemy Below; writing credit: Wendell Mayes. Based on the novel by D.A. Rayner.)

The pavement was his enemy. (Twins; writing credit: William Davies; William Osborne)

It's an enemy of all mankind ("War"; performing artist: Edwin Starr)

Heartbreak enemy despise (Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough; performing artist: MICHAEL JACKSON)

Stand up and face the enemy (Invincible; performing artist: Pat Benatar)

And if the enemy came close to me (Draft Dodger Rag; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. (references; author: Mark Twain)

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

If the enemy is in range, so are you. (references; author: unknown)

The best way to beat your enemy is to beat him at politeness. (references; author: unknown)

When you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in combat. (references; author: unknown)

Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone. (references; author: unknown)

Introduction to the Enemy (1974)

In Enemy Country (1968)

The Violent Enemy (1968)

Arch Enemy of the FBI Cosa Nostra (1967)

An Enemy of the People (1966)

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Books

• Enemy Women: A Novel (reference)

• In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington Series, Book 7) (reference)

• Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Enemy at the Gates (reference)

• Enemy Mine (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Redefine the Enemy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Enemy Engaged: Comanche Vs. Hokum (reference)

• Return to Castle Wolfenstein Expansion: Enemy Territory (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The bottom line - determined 7,016 enemy targets for Allied artillery Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Commander Maurice A. Hecht at left - first instructor for radar ranging class Observation battalion training in use of radar to determine enemy gun location. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wolf Pack troops defend Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, against enemy attacks during Foal Eagle 2000. Foal Eagle 2000 is a combined Republic of Korea/U.S. Forces Korea joint field training exercise that occurred peninsula-wide from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3.

Fire ants will do anything to resist attack by the tiny phorid fly measuring only about one-sixteenthe of an inch. A highly specific natural enemy, the female pierces a fire ant's head and releases an enzyme that later decapitates it. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Sanford Porter..

Sex Exposure Without Prophylaxis PRO - AXIS : Venereal Disease Helps The Enemy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A friend of vodka is an enemy of the trade union]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Post-Civil War photograph, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 63, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. Ordinary Seaman Molloy was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in serving a gun from an exposed position on the forecastle of USS Fort Hindman during an engagement with an enemy battery near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, on 2 March 1864. Note: The birth date given on this image differs from that published in the book "Medal of Honor -- The Navy", which gives Molloy's date of birth as 1832. Credit: NAVY.

Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 54, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts Ordinary Seaman Duncan throwing a burning cartridge overboard on USS Fort Hindman, after it was set afire by an exploding shell. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in this incident, which took place during an engagement with an enemy battery near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, on 2 March 1864. James K.L. Duncan was born at Frankfort, PA, in 1845. Credit: NAVY.

Don't let any body deceive you, little tiger : the red blooded American knows a friend from an enemy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tales of the Green Beret. As zero hour approaches, a small band of American and South Vietnamese prepares for the challenge of overwhelming enemy odds. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And he who does it, is justly to be esteemed the common enemy and pest of mankind, and is to be treated accordingly. (Second Treatise of Government)

The High Contracting Parties will take all suitable measures to trace and punish collusion between enemy creditors and debtors. (reference)

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She must have been a perpetual enemy.

If the enemy can think and feel, you might hesitate to kill them

He pointed out that, if only the bullets were sent the other way round the world, they would hit the enemy in the back

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognise his enemy when the latter actually appeared

The detestable maxim, (r)Live on your enemy , produced this leper, which rigid discipline alone can cure

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes

A thing devised by the enemy.

Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak

The enemy will find it out.

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Health

Usually, the immune system attacks germs, as an army would attack its enemy. (references)

First used during World War II to detect enemy submarines below the surface of the water, ultrasound has since been used safely in obstetrics. (references)

Children

Pakistan

Children sometimes are kidnaped to be used as forced labor, for ransom, or to seek revenge against an enemy. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burundi

The two journalists were accused of "disseminating information that serves the propaganda purposes of the enemy during war" and other charges. (references)

Cuba

Charges of disseminating enemy propaganda, which includes merely expressing opinions at odds with those of the Government, can bring sentences of up to 14 years. (references)

Economic History

Afghanistan

With the demise of their common enemy, the militias' ethnic, clan, religious, and personality differences surfaced, and the civil war continued. (references)

Cambodia

By the end of this decade, Khmer nationalism began to reassert itself against the traditional Vietnamese enemy.In 1986, Hanoi claimed to have begun withdrawing part of its occupation forces. (references)

Human Rights

Lebanon

Tawfiq Hindi, Ja'Ja's former political advisor, who authorities arrested in August, was charged with collaborating with the Israeli enemy, forming an association to harm the State's authority, and damaging the country's relation with a sisterly nation. (references)

Worker Rights

Guinea

Union officials are selected on the basis of nepotism and patronage, rather than through a hierarchy of competence; these individuals are not sensitized to the rights of workers, and often view unions as an enemy of the Government. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Enemy in secret

Bough or bramble of the enemy

Enemy

Enemy

Expressions using "enemy": Alien enemy ♦ arch enemy ♦ deadly enemy ♦ desert to the enemy ♦ dive down on the enemy ♦ enemy agent ♦ enemy alien ♦ enemy forces ♦ enemy power ♦ enemy to society ♦ follow the enemy ♦ ghostly enemy ♦ go at an enemy ♦ go over to the enemy ♦ lie at the mercy of an enemy ♦ like an enemy ♦ make a dash against the enemy ♦ make an enemy of ♦ make an enemy of smb. ♦ make contact with the enemy ♦ mortal enemy ♦ pass over to the enemy ♦ potential enemy ♦ public enemy ♦ pursue the enemy ♦ smite the enemy ♦ snipe at the enemy ♦ stop the advance of the enemy ♦ suppression of enemy air defense ♦ suppression of enemy air defenses ♦ The enemy ♦ the old enemy ♦ triumph over an enemy ♦ yield ground to the enemy. Additional references.

Beginning with "enemy": enemy-held, enemy-occupied.

Ending with "enemy": arch-enemy, ex-enemy.

Afrikaans

vyand (adversary). (various references)

Albanian

armik (adversary, archenemy, foe, hostile, opponent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عدو (adversary, foe, hostile, inimical, race, running, scamper), ‏خصم (adversary, antagonist, concurrent, deduct, discount, foe, hostile, knock off, levy, litigant, opposite, rebate, recoup, subtract, subtraction, withhold), ‏العدو (foe, galloper). (various references)

Bulgarian 

враг (foe, hostile), неприятелски (hostile), неприятел (adversary, hostile), противник (adversary, antagonist, dissenter, opponent, opposer, resistant, resister). (various references)

Catalan

enemic (adversary). (various references)

Chinese 

敌人 (Adversaries, Adversary, Enemies), 敵人 , 敵 (match). (various references)

Czech

odpùrce (contestant, dissenter, objector, opponent, protester, respondent), nepřítel (foe). (various references)

Danish

fjende (adversary). (various references)

Dutch

vijand, výand (adversary), belager (attacker). (various references)

Esperanto

malamiko, insidanto (attacker). (various references)

Faeroese

fíggindi (adversary), óvinur (adversary). (various references)

Farsi 

عدو (Foe), خصم (Opponent), دشمن کردن (Antagonize), دشمن (Adversary, Antagonist, Foe, Hostile). (various references)

Finnish

vihollinen, vihamies (foe). (various references)

French

ennemi. (various references)

Frisian

fijân (adversary). (various references)

German

feind (fiend, foe). (various references)

Greek 

εχθρόσ (foe), εχθρός (foe), εχθρικόσ (hostile, inimical, malevolent, unfriendly). (various references)

Hawaiian

armik (adversary). (various references)

Hebrew 

אויב (adversary, foe, hater, hostile). (various references)

Hungarian

ellenség (adversary, antagonist, foe, to carry war into the enemy's country), ellenfél (adversary, adverse party, antagonist, foe, opponent, opposer, party to a dispute, party to a suit). (various references)

Icelandic

óvinur (adversary). (various references)

Indonesian

musuh (adversary, antagonist, foe, opponent). (various references)

Irish

namhaid. (various references)

Italian

nemico (adversary, adverse, averse, foe, hostile, inimical, opposed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

敵 (rival). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かたきどうし, かたき (enmity, evil, feud, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, rival, ruin), あた (enmity, evil, feud, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin), めのかたき, あ� (enmity, evil, feud, foe, frivolous, futile, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin, transient, vain), エネミー , てきしゅ (picking, plucking up, rival), てきへい, てき (cutting, -like, rival, typical). (various references)

Korean 

� � (Enemies, foe). (various references)

Manx

rueg (highwayman, invader, plunderer), noid (adversary, antagonist, foe). (various references)

Norwegian

fiende (adversary). (various references)

Papiamen

enemigu (adversary), enemigo (adversary). (various references)

Pig Latin

enemyay.(various references)

Polish

nieprzyjaciel (adversary). (various references)

Portuguese

inimigo (adversary, averse, fiend, foe, hostile, inimical). (various references)

Romanian

vrãjmaş (foe, inhospitable, terrible), inamic (foe, hostile), duşmanã, duşman (adversary, foe, opponent), adversar (adversary, antagonist, assailant, disputant, foe, opponent, rival). (various references)

Russian 

враг (adversary, foe, opponent), неприятельский (hostile), неприятель враждебный, неприятель, недруг (buddy buddy), противник (adversary, antagonist, assailant, contestant, foe, opponent, rival). (various references)

Scottish

n� mhaid (an enemy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zlotvor (malefactor), neprijateljski (adverse, hostile, ill, inimical, unfriendly), neprijatelj (foe). (various references)

Spanish

enemigo (adversary, averse, foe, hostile). (various references)

Sranan

feyanti (adversary). (various references)

Swahili

adui (adversary). (various references)

Swedish

ovän (adversary), fiende (adversary, foe). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งที่เป็น� ัย, ศัตรู (foe). (various references)

Turkish

hasım (adversary, antagonist, foe, hostile, rival), düşman kuvvetleri, düşman (adversary, antagonist, antagonistic, at enmity with, foe, inimical, opponent). (various references)

Turkmen 

яagy, duюman. (various references)

Ukrainian

супротивник (adversary, assailant, contradictor), ворог (adversary, foe, hostile, opponent), диявол (demon, devil, dragon, fiend). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thù địch (adverse), quân địch, kẻ thù (adversary, foe, opponent), kẻ địch (adversary), của địch, địch thủ (antagonist, contender, opponent, rival). (various references)

Welsh

ysgar (divorce, part, separate), gelynes, gelyn (foe), cas (aversion, disagreeable, foe, hateful, hater, hatred, nasty, odious). (various references)

erim, kur, lu-erim, lu-kur-ra, ur. (various references)

adversari, adversarii, adversariis, adversario, adversariorum, adversarios, adversarium, adversarius, adversis, colluctator, hoste, hostem, hostes, hosti, hostibus, hostilem, hostili, hostilis, hostilium, hostis, hostium, inimice, inimici, inimicis, inimico, inimicorum, inimicos, inimicum, inimicus, malivolo, praevaricans, praevaricantes, praevaricantur, praevaricari, praevaricata, praevaricati, praevaricator, praevaricatorum, praevaricatricis, praevaricatrix, praevaricatus, praevaricemur. (various references)

aurvathanãm, haênayå. (various references)

andsaca, feond, fynd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "enemy": archenemy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Enemy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Denemy, Eeky, eency, Eeney, eenny, eeny, Ehem, Einem, enamy, endem, eneem, eneemys, enem, enemi, enemia, enemic, enen, enent, eneny, Enery, Enheim, enim, enm, ennemi, ennemy, enom, entem, entey, enuy, Epehy, inem, Neeme, nemi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eyen, eyne, neem.

-2 letters: eme, eye, men, nee, yen.

-3 letters: em, en, me, my, ne, ye.

+1 letter: cymene, enzyme, yeomen.

+2 letters: amylene, cymenes, enzymes, moneyed, moneyer, mooneye, myeline, mynheer, yeggmen.

+3 letters: amylenes, bogeymen, ceremony, clemency, coenzyme, cymogene, eminency, empyrean, ependyma, everyman, everymen, ferrymen, ganymede, hegemony, hegumeny, hymeneal, megadyne, moneyers, moneymen, monkeyed, mooneyes, myelines, mynheers, unmeetly, unseemly, zymogene.

+4 letters: apoenzyme, archenemy, boogeymen, clemently, clergymen, coenzymes, cymogenes, embayment, emergency, eminently, empyreans, enjoyment, enthymeme, ependymas, eponymies, exoenzyme, ganymedes, germanely, gynaeceum, heteronym, homeyness, hymeneals, immensely, isoenzyme, liverymen, mateyness, megadynes, mercenary, mesentery, methylene, minelayer, nymphette, oystermen, proenzyme, remedying, repayment, safetymen, seemingly, teemingly, teleonomy, vestrymen, zymogenes.