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plural enemies
Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. quotations examples
If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.
2005, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, spoken by Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen)
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.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Citadel
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.
2022 March 13, Yevgenia Albats, 10:01 from the start, in Journalist risking jail to report from inside Russia speaks out, CNN
A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation. examples
Something harmful or threatening to another quotations examples
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.
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time
(attributive) Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy. examples
(video games) A non-player character that tries to harm the player. examples
third-person singular simple present enemies, present participle enemying, simple past and past participle enemied
To make an enemy of. quotations examples
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.
1963, The Castles and the Crown: Spain, 1451-1555, page 51
But rather the life He has lived People he met Befriended and enemied
2009, Adam Stephen Alber, Greater Than My Thoughts: A Glimpse Of My Soul, page 64
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.
2014, Robert Shanafelt, Nathan W. Pino, Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities, page 184
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.
2016, Elif M. Gokcigdem, Fostering Empathy Through Museums, page 45