enemy — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

   Sinonimi

   foeunfriendadversarynemesisbackfriend

   Contrari

   allyfriend

   Esempi

   under enemy duress

   He made a lot of enemies after reducing the working hours in his department.

   Altri esempi (4)

   You may not want any enemies, but sometimes, your enemies choose you.

   If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.

   Garrus: Fist knows you're coming. We'll have a better chance if we all work together. Wrex: My people have a saying: Seek the enemy of your enemy, and you will find a friend.

   I am a known enemy and I cannot say more than I already said. And my books and my articles and my magazine- whatever could happen to the publication has already happened. What else? They can kill me. OK, you know, nobody promised me that I'm going to live forever.

2. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.

   Sinonimi

   foeadversarynemesis

   Contrari

   allyfriend

   Esempi

   Rally together against a common enemy.

3. Something harmful or threatening to another

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest.

4. Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.

   Uso

   • attributive

   Esempi

   The building was destroyed by enemy bombing.

5. A non-player character that tries to harm the player.

   Sinonimi

   mob

   Esempi

   Use gadgets like Nakishkas to fend off enemies.

Verbo

1. To make an enemy of.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   These prelates and nobles, seeing themselves dispossessed by the death of this king don Alfonso, to whom they had adhered, and enemied with the king don Enrique his brother, whom they had deserted, were in great fear, dreading the indignation of the king, whom by letters and words they had much injured; and they found no other remedy for their defense but to continue the division which they had begun in the realm, raising for queen of it the princess doña Isabel in place of her brother.

   But rather the life He has lived People he met Befriended and enemied

   Altri esempi (2)

   Bureaucracy and wider features of a division of labor also facilitates the “othering” and “enemying” associated with systemic violence and makes possible the professionalization of atrocity.

   But these choices came with point values: friending someone who friended you gave each player fifteen points; friending someone who enemied you gave the enemy-er a whopping twenty-five points but lost the friend-er five points; and if both players enemied each other, both got five points.

Sostantivo

1. an opposing military force

   Termini più generali

   military unitmilitary forcemilitary groupforce

   Esempi

   the enemy attacked at dawn

2. an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

   Sinonimi

   foeopposition

   Termini più generali

   adversaryantagonistopponentopposerresister

   Esempi

   a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies

3. any hostile group of people

   Termini più generali

   people

   Esempi

   he viewed lawyers as the real enemy

4. a personal enemy

   Sinonimi

   foe

   Termini più generali

   rivalchallengercompetitorcompetitioncontender

   Esempi

   they had been political foes for years