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Enemy

noun

(pl. enemies)

An opposing military force.

An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force). Synonyms: foe, foeman, opposition.

Any hostile group of people.

A personal enemy. Synonym: foe. Antonym: friend.

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"Enemy" Quotes from Famous Books

... "death" that had started it all during the fighting on Guadalcanal. A grenade had come flying into the foxhole where Dane and Harding had felt reasonably safe. The concussion had knocked Dane out, possibly saving his life when the enemy thought he was dead. He'd come to in the daylight to see Harding lying there, mangled and twisted, with his throat torn. There was blood on Dane's uniform, obviously spattered from the dead man. It hadn't been a mistake or delusion; Harding ...

— Dead Ringer • Lester del Rey

... the English colonists between the Alleghany Mountains and the sea. War had not been declared in Europe, but the inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies, only too eager to stay the hand of France in America, planned a series of blows against the enemy. Among other things, they decided that an attempt should be made to capture the French stronghold of Fort Frederic at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. The officer selected to Command the expedition to be sent on this enterprise was William Johnson, now a major-general ...

— The War Chief of the Six Nations - A Chronicle of Joseph Brant - Volume 16 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada • Louis Aubrey Wood

... his arms, and, though pale and haggard, held himself firmly. "I could not have wished this for my worst enemy," he said at last "Gladney and I have ...

— An Unpardonable Liar • Gilbert Parker

... the woods, soon came upon the enemy's pickets, somewhere, it would appear, between Hogeland's and Apthorpe's houses on the Bloomingdale Road, more than a mile below the American lines. This was the encampment of the Light Infantry, and their Second and Third Battalions, ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

... with the enemy in my campaign," she insisted. "Oh, just think of it—the insult to love, the profanation of the sacrament of ...

— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

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