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enemy
noun as in someone hated or competed against
Strongest matches
adversary, agent, antagonist, attacker, bandit, competitor, criminal, detractor, foe, guerrilla, invader, murderer, opponent, opposition, prosecutor, rebel, rival, spy, terrorist, traitor, villain
Strong matches
assailant, assassin, backbiter, betrayer, contender, defamer, defiler, disputant, emulator, falsifier, informer, inquisitor, revolutionary, saboteur, slanderer, traducer, vilifier
Weak matches
archenemy, asperser, bad person, calumniator, fifth column, other side, seditionist
Example Sentences
The government interred Japanese, German, and other diplomats from enemy countries at the Greenbrier, of all places—both to keep the diplomats from leaving the country and to make sure that they were treated well.
Cut into the vessel’s hull at the waterline, for the first time in history they allowed a warship to fire broadsides at an enemy.
“The enemy is preparing for war, setting the conditions for an act of aggression on Poland,” Kukuła said Monday on the country’s state-run radio station.
Theirs was a bold but unlikely mission: to parachute behind enemy lines and save European Jews from extermination.
"The enemy launched missile strikes on the city of Balakliya," Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov posted on Telegram, adding that at least seven people were wounded and apartment buildings and cars damaged.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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