Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - enemy
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Enemy
enemy
~ n 1 someone who hates you and wants to harm you (She's a dangerous enemy to have. | be enemies (=hate and oppose each other)) (Jake and Paul have been enemies for years. | make an enemy (of sb)) (He's a ruthless businessman and has made a lot of enemies. | sworn enemies (=enemies determined never to end their quarrel)) 2 someone who opposes you and wants to prevent you doing something (political enemies | Greenpeace, an enemy of the chemical industry, is pressing for more environmental legislation.) 3 someone you are fighting in a war (Our enemies were hidden in the trenches. | enemy forces (=the army, navy etc of the country that you are fighting) | enemy soldiers/aircraft) (Enemy aircraft were spotted overhead.) 4 be your own worst enemy to behave in a way that causes problems for yourself 5 literary something that changes something else or makes it weaker (Jealousy is the enemy of love.)
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(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 ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural -mies) Etymology: Middle English enemi, from Anglo-French, from Latin inimicus, from in- 1in- + amicus friend — more at amiable Date: 13th century 1. one that is antagonistic to another; especially one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent 2. something harmful or deadly alcohol was his greatest ~ 3. a. a military adversary b. a hostile unit or force ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 a person or group actively opposing or hostile to another, or to a cause etc. 2 a a hostile nation or army, esp. in war. b a member of this. c a hostile ship or aircraft. 3 (usu. foll. by of, to) an adversary or opponent. 4 a thing that harms or injures. 5 (attrib.) of or belonging to an enemy (destroyed by enemy action). Etymology: ME f. OF enemi f. L inimicus (as IN-(1), amicus friend) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. враг, недруг, противник bitter enemy —- злейший враг to be sworn enemies —- быть заклятыми врагами he is an enemy of our cause —- он враг нашего дела he is no enemy to wine —- он не прочь выпить the enemy from within —- внутренний враг to be one's own enemy —- действовать во вред себе; сам себе злейший враг 2. воен. употр. также с гл. во мн. ч.: неприятель, противник the enemy is in large force —- противник выступает значительными силами the enemy are forced to retreat —- противник вынужден отступать 3. корабль противника 4. эвф. дьявол, сатана the enemy of mankind —- враг рода человеческого, сатана 5. время how goes the enemy? —- который час? to kill the enemy —- (стараться) убить время 6. спец. вредитель (о насекомом) Id: the great enemy —- смерть 7. воен. вражеский, враждебный, относящийся к противнику enemy alien —- гражданин враждебного государства enemy camp —- вражеский лагерь enemy dead —- погибшие солдаты и офицеры противника enemy lines —- расположение противника enemy aviation —- вражеская авиация 8. уст. враждебно настроенный, недружелюбный 9. диал. анемон (Anemone) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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nationals подданные враждебного государства ENEMY 1. noun враг; неприятель, противник to be ones own enemy - действовать во вред самому себе the (old) Enemy - дьявол how goes the enemy? - который час? to kill the enemy - коротать время, стараться убить время Syn: see opponent 2. adj. враждебный; вражеский, неприятельский ...Англо-русский словарь
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