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What does enemy mean?
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enemy

If someone is your enemy that person is against you, or does not like you. I have no enemies that I know of. In war the enemy is the country or army that is attacking your country or army. He was sent to jail because he was working for the enemy.

enemy

an opposing military force the enemy attacked at dawn an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies any hostile group of people he viewed lawyers as the real enemy (= foe) a personal enemy they had been political foes for years

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Simple sentences

They combined forces to fight the enemy.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I thought Tom was your enemy.
Everyone who isn't us is an enemy.
Are you our enemy?
The worst enemy and the best friend of a man is another man.
I am your friend, not enemy.
We took the enemy by surprise.
We fired guns at the enemy.
After our first attack, the enemy fled.
Completely surrounded by our troops, the enemy finally surrendered to us.
Our army broke through the enemy defenses.
We defeated the enemy.
Our troops engaged with the enemy.
The soldier refused to fire his rifle at the enemy.
The soldier disdained shooting an unarmed enemy.
The soldiers were exposed to the enemy's fire.
The document passed into the enemy's hands.
The city fell to the enemy.
These houses were burnt down to the ground by the enemy.
The best is often the enemy of the good.
We crept toward the enemy.
Our army attacked the enemy during the night.
We gave the enemy a drubbing.
Macbeth raised an army to attack his enemy.
Finally they gave in to their enemy.

Movie subtitles

Capture the enemy of the empire's people!
You. You are the worst enemy I ever faced.
Euphemia has become our enemy!
Was there anyone that your father talked about in a way that might suggest he had an enemy?
And I don't know how or who the enemy is.
This man here. he's our new enemy.
I need you to provide me with enemy intel.
Who else is my enemy?
The enemy must be dealt a decisive blow!
The enemy is within firing range!
Finally I meet a chess enemy!
In the enemy's country, hopelessly lost, helplessly cold and horribly hungry.
Hank Hooper, Harold's sworn enemy ever since Harold sold him a dozen door knobs for fresh eggs in the dark.
I will no longer be Laansoo, the blacksmith, if I let the enemy pillage my homeland.
The Blessed will only bring harm to humanity, and that means they're an enemy the Guardians should take down.
Simple. You're not our enemy.
The cyborgs are not the enemy as presumed.
We cannot afford to let this enemy run rampant.
I regret to inform you the U.N. has already been infiltrated by an enemy agent.
Forgive me. The plan was to keep an eye on the enemy. However, it was more than I'd bargained for.
Open your eyes, and see who your true enemy is!
They're the ones that you should be fighting. They're the real enemy in all of this.
They hope to throw mankind into chaos by fabricating a nonexistent enemy for us to pursue.
As a result, I believe our enemy has superpowers.
If your hypothesis is indeed correct, 001, does that mean that the enemy is somehow decreasing entropy?
I ain't the enemy.
In the end, obviously, the Kanima brings them together, and they have a common enemy.
Scott, but at the moment, we have a common enemy.
I heard that an enemy nation has a new weapon.
You are the gay heroes who will repulse the enemy. when you are called upon to do so.
If I'm gonna bump off the enemy, I gotta have some practise. Ow!
When you jumped in here you were my enemy, and I was afraid of you.
First, the enemy lines must be broken through in Flanders.
The enemy has too many reserves there.
All the information confirm our assumption that the enemy will assume the offensive this morning.
I'm. Comrade. No enemy.
Here's the doc charging the enemy with an unloaded camera.
Enemy's on the run.

News and current affairs

We need to convince each other that the fight against this common enemy has to be fought with a keen eye to balancing the needs of security with those of human and minority rights.
Indeed, it seems as if everyone in the Kremlin is reading Carl Schmitt, the Nazi legal theorist who taught that naming your enemy is the central mission of politics.
In the spirit of Schmitt, Putin's men designated a liberal party, the Union of Right Forces, as their ur-enemy.
In an Arab Middle East, Iran is the natural enemy; in an Islamic world, Iran is a potential leader.
Another factor may be the need for a common enemy in a country whose citizens come from so many different cultures and traditions.
Clearly, the Arab world was changing, and the US was suddenly no longer an enemy, but a friend.
A large chunk of the Republican base, including many of the party's largest donors, believes that any Democratic president is an illegitimate enemy of America, so that whatever such an incumbent proposes must be wrong and thus should be thwarted.
Why should the rest of the world think that conflict with a larger and more resolute enemy would be handled any more capably?
Not only has Bush destroyed Iran's most formidable enemy and bogged down US troops in a hopeless cause; he also has enriched energy-abundant Iran and Russia by pursuing a war that has dramatically raised energy prices.
Particularly the losers, often represented by young men with no future to look forward to, can be induced to take even suicidal action against the alleged enemy.
BRUSSELS - There is a saying, too often used in interpreting international relations, that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
The international community must say clearly that Islam is not our enemy and that terrorism must be fought in other ways.
Perhaps the most shattering lost illusion is the fact that the bombings occurred in the heart of the al-Saud's home-base in the Najdi region, which indicates that the enemy within resides nearer to the throne than anyone suspected.
That strategic nightmare cost Israel and the US their closest ally in the region, one that was soon transformed into an implacable enemy.
In 1998, when India tested its nuclear weapons, the defense minister referred to China, and then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee spoke of China as India's number one enemy.
Perhaps - just perhaps - one or even two of the released Palestinians will be willing to cooperate - and to lead others into cooperating - with an enemy that had been their jailer.
In the 1980's, this approach focused attention on abuses in conflict-ridden Central America and in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which the Reagan Administration favored in its struggle with America's enemy, Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran.
In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.

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