enemy

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Etymology

From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French: ennemi), from Latin inimīcus, from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”). Displaced Middle English feend (“enemy”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), which survived into Modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English as fiend, but with a different meaning.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛnəmi/
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  • Hyphenation: en‧e‧my

Noun

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enemy (plural enemies)

  1. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
    He made a lot of enemies after reducing the working hours in his department.
    Crush the enemy!
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    • If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.
  2. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
    rally together against a common enemy.
  3. Something harmful or threatening to another
    • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎[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.

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Adjective

enemy (comparative more enemy, superlative most enemy)

  1. of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy

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Verb

enemy (third-person singular simple present enemies, present participle enemying, simple past and past participle enemied)

  1. To make an enemy of.
    • 1963, The Castles and the Crown: Spain, 1451-1555, page 51:
      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.
    • 2009, Adam Stephen Alber, Greater Than My Thoughts: A Glimpse Of My Soul, page 64:
      But rather the life He has lived People he met Befriended and enemied
    • 2014, Robert Shanafelt, ‎Nathan W. Pino, Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities, page 184:
      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.
    • 2016, Elif M. Gokcigdem, Fostering Empathy Through Museums, page 45:
      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.

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Old French

Noun

enemy oblique singular, m (oblique plural enemys, nominative singular enemys, nominative plural enemy)

  1. Alternative form of enemi

Descendants

  • English: enemy
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