enemy in English: A person who hates you and wants to hurt you. (noun)

Translation

A person who hates you and wants to hurt you.

Word origin

From Old French enemi, from Latin inimicus, which simply means not a friend.

Gender

Pluralenemies

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"Enemy" is the opposite of "friend".

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In a war, "the enemy" means the other side.

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"Enemies" is the plural form.

friend

A person you know well and like, who is not in your family.

fight

To try to hurt or beat another person or group, often with hands or weapons.

war

A time of fighting between countries or large groups of people.

hate

To dislike someone or something very strongly.

angry

Feeling very cross because something is wrong or unfair.

betray

To hurt someone who trusts you, by helping their enemy or by telling their secret.

defeat

Losing a game, a fight or a war. As a verb it means to beat somebody in a game, a fight or a war.

revenge

Something bad that you do to a person because they hurt you first.

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