Definition of enemy in English:

enemy

nounPlural enemies ˈɛnəmiˈɛnəmi

1A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
敌人，仇敌；反对者
the traditional enemies of his tribe
Nigel made many enemies
this man was her sworn enemy
Example sentencesExamples
- A real Chinese martial arts hero never strikes his enemy if the latter is unable to fight back.
- He died in Rome and some accounts say he was poisoned by his enemies, other accounts say he died from the plague.
- It was well hidden and difficult for an enemy to identify from the air or from the ground.
- They are determined to harm their enemies whoever this may be and are thus a great threat to our societies.
- Somehow they blamed each other, deciding their sworn enemy was the sole reason for their anger.
- The cannon in question is retired and would be used only as a decoy to fool enemies in the event of an attack.
- He was a man of many enemies, and these enemies were to be found in all political camps.
- She was still my sworn enemy who was trying to tear me down in whatever way possible.
- He was relieved as he saw that his enemy would do no more harm to lives of the happily free.
- Albert did his best to smile at a man who was supposed to be his enemy despite being critically ill himself.
- She was disappointed in this, as her instincts told her that he was the most dangerous of enemies.
- The entire clan was a bitter enemy of Islam from the start.
- I was willing to take the risk of having an enemy in my midst in order to get a hold of your brilliance.
- So he decided to make peace with the Church in order to have a free hand to deal with his more dangerous enemies.
- He has become the arch enemy of mankind.
- He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
- Anyone who seeks radical change is going to make enemies of those who benefit from the current system.
- Through lies and misunderstanding this results in him becoming the sworn enemy of his own mother.
- In other words he is a dangerous enemy and consequently a good man to have on one's side provided one can keep an eye on him.
Synonyms
foe, adversary, opponent, rival, nemesis, antagonist, combatant, challenger, competitor, opposer, hostile party
(the enemy), the opposition, the competition, the other side, the opposing side
rare corrival, vier
1. 1.1the enemytreated as singular or plural A hostile nation or its armed forces, especially in time of war.
  敌国；敌军
  the enemy shot down four helicopters
  敌军击落了4架直升机。
  as modifier enemy aircraft
  Example sentencesExamples
  The enemy aircraft were destroyed not only in the air but also on airfields.
  Surprise is to strike the enemy at a time or place or in a manner for which he is unprepared.
  In major battles there was as much chance of a submarine being attacked by its own side as opposed to the enemy.
  Since the main part of the Jacobite army never engaged the enemy, losses were relatively light.
  Doing so will help us stay tactically sharp and be able to take the fight to the enemy.
  Democracies are entitled to try officers and soldiers of enemy forces for war crimes.
  U.S. Special Forces engaged and killed approximately two dozen enemy forces in a firefight that started with an ambush.
  That means, he argues, that the West must learn new ways of detecting and combating the enemy.
  This has been a traditional way of attacking the enemy since the days of Wellington.
  The time to face the enemy had now come, he rallied his men into their battle formations.
  Then the tank behind it apparently mistook an armored vehicle for the enemy and shot and destroyed it.
  Union troops suffered from heavy enemy artillery fire until they were able to dig in and reduce their exposure.
  The enemy soldier fell to the ground with the arrow protruding from his back.
  Not a shot had been fired and not a single Allied aircraft had attacked the enemy aircraft.
  Increasingly U.S. troops are fighting the enemy on urban battlefields.
  Artillery guns were also used to fire gas shells to deliver poisonous gas onto the enemy.
  The bulk of the infantry was kept back out of range of the enemy guns, ready to counter-attack.
  The vicious fighting involved hand to hand combat and all the enemy were either killed or captured.
  The object of war is to destroy the enemy's capability to make war.
  There, they were to interdict US lines of communication by destroying enemy shipping.
2. 1.2 A thing that harms or weakens something else.
  大敌，危害物
  routine is the enemy of art
  墨守成规是艺术的大敌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He will cast his opponents as enemies of change, he will appeal over their heads to the British people.
  In a rather bold twist, the traditional enemy of poetry is turned into a poet himself!
  After all, as he explains at length in his book, these three things have a common enemy in risk aversion.
  Part of my psyche is tuned to the belief that routine is the enemy of invention.
  The virus is a challenging enemy that has evolved many ways to avoid detection and elimination.
  "You have not killed an enemy of freedom, " says me.
  They are murderers, and more importantly, they are sworn enemies of democracy and the rule of law.

Phrases

be one's own worst enemy

Act in a way contrary to one's own interests.
自己害自己
I try my best, but he's his own worst enemy
Example sentencesExamples
- Hitler went from being a superb strategist in the early part of his rule to being his own worst enemy later on.
- Not for the first time in my life, I had been my own worst enemy, but if people don't treat me correctly, I have to hit back at them.
- The team were their own worst enemy as they squandered numerous chances in a nervous opening game.
- But you can be your own worst enemy when there's a lot of negative chatter going on inside your head.
- I think a lot of the time I can be my own worst enemy.

make an enemy of

Cause (someone) to start feeling hostile to one.
by 1776 he had made an enemy of the queen
Example sentencesExamples
- The marchers' defiant smugness started to make an enemy of me.
- She spurns his advances on several occasions, but he remains persistent, warning Eliza that she should not make an enemy of him.
- If the club have made an enemy of adversity in the current campaign then Hughes has become its ally.
- This lawsuit will make an enemy of Weinstein that no other action could have inspired.
- Pointing out her shortcomings will do no good, and you really don't want to make an enemy of your girlfriend's roommate.
- It just doesn't help to make an enemy of the person with the power to grant your request.
- By 1776 he had made an enemy of the queen through his clumsy intervention against one of her protégés in a complicated diplomatic incident.
- The glamorous cabinet minister sacked by the president made an enemy of of the president's wife with early morning calls.
- By placing it in the enemy camp, the President made an enemy of a would-be ally.
- But making an enemy of its own core market has to be like commiting suicide.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French enemi, from Latin inimicus, from in- 'not' + amicus 'friend'.

An enemy is not your friend. So far, so obvious, but this is, in fact, the derivation of the word. It came into the language at the end of the 13th century from Old French enemi, from Latin inimicus, which was based on in- meaning ‘not’ and amicus ‘friend’. Inimicus is the source of inimical (late 17th century) or ‘hostile’, and amicus of amicable (mid 16th century) or ‘friendly’.

Rhymes

arch-enemy

Definition of enemy in US English:

enemy

nounˈɛnəmiˈenəmē

1A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
敌人，仇敌；反对者
Example sentencesExamples
- She was disappointed in this, as her instincts told her that he was the most dangerous of enemies.
- He has become the arch enemy of mankind.
- He died in Rome and some accounts say he was poisoned by his enemies, other accounts say he died from the plague.
- It was well hidden and difficult for an enemy to identify from the air or from the ground.
- So he decided to make peace with the Church in order to have a free hand to deal with his more dangerous enemies.
- He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
- He was a man of many enemies, and these enemies were to be found in all political camps.
- Anyone who seeks radical change is going to make enemies of those who benefit from the current system.
- Somehow they blamed each other, deciding their sworn enemy was the sole reason for their anger.
- They are determined to harm their enemies whoever this may be and are thus a great threat to our societies.
- He was relieved as he saw that his enemy would do no more harm to lives of the happily free.
- In other words he is a dangerous enemy and consequently a good man to have on one's side provided one can keep an eye on him.
- She was still my sworn enemy who was trying to tear me down in whatever way possible.
- I was willing to take the risk of having an enemy in my midst in order to get a hold of your brilliance.
- A real Chinese martial arts hero never strikes his enemy if the latter is unable to fight back.
- The entire clan was a bitter enemy of Islam from the start.
- Through lies and misunderstanding this results in him becoming the sworn enemy of his own mother.
- Albert did his best to smile at a man who was supposed to be his enemy despite being critically ill himself.
- The cannon in question is retired and would be used only as a decoy to fool enemies in the event of an attack.
Synonyms
foe, adversary, opponent, rival, nemesis, antagonist, combatant, challenger, competitor, opposer, hostile party
1. 1.1the enemytreated as singular or plural A hostile nation or its armed forces or citizens, especially in time of war.
  敌国；敌军
  the enemy shot down four helicopters
  敌军击落了4架直升机。
  as modifier enemy aircraft
  Example sentencesExamples
  U.S. Special Forces engaged and killed approximately two dozen enemy forces in a firefight that started with an ambush.
  The object of war is to destroy the enemy's capability to make war.
  Then the tank behind it apparently mistook an armored vehicle for the enemy and shot and destroyed it.
  The time to face the enemy had now come, he rallied his men into their battle formations.
  In major battles there was as much chance of a submarine being attacked by its own side as opposed to the enemy.
  Increasingly U.S. troops are fighting the enemy on urban battlefields.
  Democracies are entitled to try officers and soldiers of enemy forces for war crimes.
  That means, he argues, that the West must learn new ways of detecting and combating the enemy.
  The bulk of the infantry was kept back out of range of the enemy guns, ready to counter-attack.
  The vicious fighting involved hand to hand combat and all the enemy were either killed or captured.
  The enemy soldier fell to the ground with the arrow protruding from his back.
  This has been a traditional way of attacking the enemy since the days of Wellington.
  The enemy aircraft were destroyed not only in the air but also on airfields.
  Doing so will help us stay tactically sharp and be able to take the fight to the enemy.
  Surprise is to strike the enemy at a time or place or in a manner for which he is unprepared.
  Union troops suffered from heavy enemy artillery fire until they were able to dig in and reduce their exposure.
  Not a shot had been fired and not a single Allied aircraft had attacked the enemy aircraft.
  Since the main part of the Jacobite army never engaged the enemy, losses were relatively light.
  Artillery guns were also used to fire gas shells to deliver poisonous gas onto the enemy.
  There, they were to interdict US lines of communication by destroying enemy shipping.
2. 1.2 A thing that harms or weakens something else.
  大敌，危害物
  routine is the enemy of art
  墨守成规是艺术的大敌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After all, as he explains at length in his book, these three things have a common enemy in risk aversion.
  In a rather bold twist, the traditional enemy of poetry is turned into a poet himself!
  "You have not killed an enemy of freedom, " says me.
  He will cast his opponents as enemies of change, he will appeal over their heads to the British people.
  The virus is a challenging enemy that has evolved many ways to avoid detection and elimination.
  Part of my psyche is tuned to the belief that routine is the enemy of invention.
  They are murderers, and more importantly, they are sworn enemies of democracy and the rule of law.

Phrases

be one's own worst enemy

Act in a way contrary to one's own interests.
自己害自己
Example sentencesExamples
- Not for the first time in my life, I had been my own worst enemy, but if people don't treat me correctly, I have to hit back at them.
- Hitler went from being a superb strategist in the early part of his rule to being his own worst enemy later on.
- But you can be your own worst enemy when there's a lot of negative chatter going on inside your head.
- I think a lot of the time I can be my own worst enemy.
- The team were their own worst enemy as they squandered numerous chances in a nervous opening game.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French enemi, from Latin inimicus, from in- ‘not’ + amicus ‘friend’.

词汇	enemy
释义	Definition of enemy in English: enemy nounPlural enemies ˈɛnəmiˈɛnəmi 1A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. 敌人，仇敌；反对者 the traditional enemies of his tribe Nigel made many enemies this man was her sworn enemy Example sentencesExamples A real Chinese martial arts hero never strikes his enemy if the latter is unable to fight back. He died in Rome and some accounts say he was poisoned by his enemies, other accounts say he died from the plague. It was well hidden and difficult for an enemy to identify from the air or from the ground. They are determined to harm their enemies whoever this may be and are thus a great threat to our societies. Somehow they blamed each other, deciding their sworn enemy was the sole reason for their anger. The cannon in question is retired and would be used only as a decoy to fool enemies in the event of an attack. He was a man of many enemies, and these enemies were to be found in all political camps. She was still my sworn enemy who was trying to tear me down in whatever way possible. He was relieved as he saw that his enemy would do no more harm to lives of the happily free. Albert did his best to smile at a man who was supposed to be his enemy despite being critically ill himself. She was disappointed in this, as her instincts told her that he was the most dangerous of enemies. The entire clan was a bitter enemy of Islam from the start. I was willing to take the risk of having an enemy in my midst in order to get a hold of your brilliance. So he decided to make peace with the Church in order to have a free hand to deal with his more dangerous enemies. He has become the arch enemy of mankind. He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy. Anyone who seeks radical change is going to make enemies of those who benefit from the current system. Through lies and misunderstanding this results in him becoming the sworn enemy of his own mother. In other words he is a dangerous enemy and consequently a good man to have on one's side provided one can keep an eye on him. Synonyms foe, adversary, opponent, rival, nemesis, antagonist, combatant, challenger, competitor, opposer, hostile party (the enemy), the opposition, the competition, the other side, the opposing side rare corrival, vier 1.1the enemytreated as singular or plural A hostile nation or its armed forces, especially in time of war. 敌国；敌军 the enemy shot down four helicopters 敌军击落了4架直升机。 as modifier enemy aircraft Example sentencesExamples The enemy aircraft were destroyed not only in the air but also on airfields. Surprise is to strike the enemy at a time or place or in a manner for which he is unprepared. In major battles there was as much chance of a submarine being attacked by its own side as opposed to the enemy. Since the main part of the Jacobite army never engaged the enemy, losses were relatively light. Doing so will help us stay tactically sharp and be able to take the fight to the enemy. Democracies are entitled to try officers and soldiers of enemy forces for war crimes. U.S. Special Forces engaged and killed approximately two dozen enemy forces in a firefight that started with an ambush. That means, he argues, that the West must learn new ways of detecting and combating the enemy. This has been a traditional way of attacking the enemy since the days of Wellington. The time to face the enemy had now come, he rallied his men into their battle formations. Then the tank behind it apparently mistook an armored vehicle for the enemy and shot and destroyed it. Union troops suffered from heavy enemy artillery fire until they were able to dig in and reduce their exposure. The enemy soldier fell to the ground with the arrow protruding from his back. Not a shot had been fired and not a single Allied aircraft had attacked the enemy aircraft. Increasingly U.S. troops are fighting the enemy on urban battlefields. Artillery guns were also used to fire gas shells to deliver poisonous gas onto the enemy. The bulk of the infantry was kept back out of range of the enemy guns, ready to counter-attack. The vicious fighting involved hand to hand combat and all the enemy were either killed or captured. The object of war is to destroy the enemy's capability to make war. There, they were to interdict US lines of communication by destroying enemy shipping. 1.2 A thing that harms or weakens something else. 大敌，危害物 routine is the enemy of art 墨守成规是艺术的大敌。 Example sentencesExamples He will cast his opponents as enemies of change, he will appeal over their heads to the British people. In a rather bold twist, the traditional enemy of poetry is turned into a poet himself! After all, as he explains at length in his book, these three things have a common enemy in risk aversion. Part of my psyche is tuned to the belief that routine is the enemy of invention. The virus is a challenging enemy that has evolved many ways to avoid detection and elimination. "You have not killed an enemy of freedom, " says me. They are murderers, and more importantly, they are sworn enemies of democracy and the rule of law. Phrases be one's own worst enemy Act in a way contrary to one's own interests. 自己害自己 I try my best, but he's his own worst enemy Example sentencesExamples Hitler went from being a superb strategist in the early part of his rule to being his own worst enemy later on. Not for the first time in my life, I had been my own worst enemy, but if people don't treat me correctly, I have to hit back at them. The team were their own worst enemy as they squandered numerous chances in a nervous opening game. But you can be your own worst enemy when there's a lot of negative chatter going on inside your head. I think a lot of the time I can be my own worst enemy. make an enemy of Cause (someone) to start feeling hostile to one. by 1776 he had made an enemy of the queen Example sentencesExamples The marchers' defiant smugness started to make an enemy of me. She spurns his advances on several occasions, but he remains persistent, warning Eliza that she should not make an enemy of him. If the club have made an enemy of adversity in the current campaign then Hughes has become its ally. This lawsuit will make an enemy of Weinstein that no other action could have inspired. Pointing out her shortcomings will do no good, and you really don't want to make an enemy of your girlfriend's roommate. It just doesn't help to make an enemy of the person with the power to grant your request. By 1776 he had made an enemy of the queen through his clumsy intervention against one of her protégés in a complicated diplomatic incident. The glamorous cabinet minister sacked by the president made an enemy of of the president's wife with early morning calls. By placing it in the enemy camp, the President made an enemy of a would-be ally. But making an enemy of its own core market has to be like commiting suicide. Origin Middle English: from Old French enemi, from Latin inimicus, from in- 'not' + amicus 'friend'. An enemy is not your friend. So far, so obvious, but this is, in fact, the derivation of the word. It came into the language at the end of the 13th century from Old French enemi, from Latin inimicus, which was based on in- meaning ‘not’ and amicus ‘friend’. Inimicus is the source of inimical (late 17th century) or ‘hostile’, and amicus of amicable (mid 16th century) or ‘friendly’. Rhymes arch-enemy noun.1 phr. Definition of enemy in US English: enemy nounˈɛnəmiˈenəmē 1A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. 敌人，仇敌；反对者 Example sentencesExamples She was disappointed in this, as her instincts told her that he was the most dangerous of enemies. He has become the arch enemy of mankind. He died in Rome and some accounts say he was poisoned by his enemies, other accounts say he died from the plague. It was well hidden and difficult for an enemy to identify from the air or from the ground. So he decided to make peace with the Church in order to have a free hand to deal with his more dangerous enemies. He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy. He was a man of many enemies, and these enemies were to be found in all political camps. Anyone who seeks radical change is going to make enemies of those who benefit from the current system. Somehow they blamed each other, deciding their sworn enemy was the sole reason for their anger. They are determined to harm their enemies whoever this may be and are thus a great threat to our societies. He was relieved as he saw that his enemy would do no more harm to lives of the happily free. In other words he is a dangerous enemy and consequently a good man to have on one's side provided one can keep an eye on him. She was still my sworn enemy who was trying to tear me down in whatever way possible. I was willing to take the risk of having an enemy in my midst in order to get a hold of your brilliance. A real Chinese martial arts hero never strikes his enemy if the latter is unable to fight back. The entire clan was a bitter enemy of Islam from the start. Through lies and misunderstanding this results in him becoming the sworn enemy of his own mother. Albert did his best to smile at a man who was supposed to be his enemy despite being critically ill himself. The cannon in question is retired and would be used only as a decoy to fool enemies in the event of an attack. Synonyms foe, adversary, opponent, rival, nemesis, antagonist, combatant, challenger, competitor, opposer, hostile party 1.1the enemytreated as singular or plural A hostile nation or its armed forces or citizens, especially in time of war. 敌国；敌军 the enemy shot down four helicopters 敌军击落了4架直升机。 as modifier enemy aircraft Example sentencesExamples U.S. Special Forces engaged and killed approximately two dozen enemy forces in a firefight that started with an ambush. The object of war is to destroy the enemy's capability to make war. Then the tank behind it apparently mistook an armored vehicle for the enemy and shot and destroyed it. The time to face the enemy had now come, he rallied his men into their battle formations. In major battles there was as much chance of a submarine being attacked by its own side as opposed to the enemy. Increasingly U.S. troops are fighting the enemy on urban battlefields. Democracies are entitled to try officers and soldiers of enemy forces for war crimes. That means, he argues, that the West must learn new ways of detecting and combating the enemy. The bulk of the infantry was kept back out of range of the enemy guns, ready to counter-attack. The vicious fighting involved hand to hand combat and all the enemy were either killed or captured. The enemy soldier fell to the ground with the arrow protruding from his back. This has been a traditional way of attacking the enemy since the days of Wellington. The enemy aircraft were destroyed not only in the air but also on airfields. Doing so will help us stay tactically sharp and be able to take the fight to the enemy. Surprise is to strike the enemy at a time or place or in a manner for which he is unprepared. Union troops suffered from heavy enemy artillery fire until they were able to dig in and reduce their exposure. Not a shot had been fired and not a single Allied aircraft had attacked the enemy aircraft. Since the main part of the Jacobite army never engaged the enemy, losses were relatively light. Artillery guns were also used to fire gas shells to deliver poisonous gas onto the enemy. There, they were to interdict US lines of communication by destroying enemy shipping. 1.2 A thing that harms or weakens something else. 大敌，危害物 routine is the enemy of art 墨守成规是艺术的大敌。 Example sentencesExamples After all, as he explains at length in his book, these three things have a common enemy in risk aversion. In a rather bold twist, the traditional enemy of poetry is turned into a poet himself! "You have not killed an enemy of freedom, " says me. He will cast his opponents as enemies of change, he will appeal over their heads to the British people. The virus is a challenging enemy that has evolved many ways to avoid detection and elimination. Part of my psyche is tuned to the belief that routine is the enemy of invention. They are murderers, and more importantly, they are sworn enemies of democracy and the rule of law. Phrases be one's own worst enemy Act in a way contrary to one's own interests. 自己害自己 Example sentencesExamples Not for the first time in my life, I had been my own worst enemy, but if people don't treat me correctly, I have to hit back at them. Hitler went from being a superb strategist in the early part of his rule to being his own worst enemy later on. But you can be your own worst enemy when there's a lot of negative chatter going on inside your head. I think a lot of the time I can be my own worst enemy. The team were their own worst enemy as they squandered numerous chances in a nervous opening game. Origin Middle English: from Old French enemi, from Latin inimicus, from in- ‘not’ + amicus ‘friend’. noun.1 phr.
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