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en·emy (en′ə mē)

noun pl. enemies -·mies

  1. a person who hates another, and wishes or tries to injure him; foe
    1. a nation or force hostile to another; military or wartime adversary
    2. troops, fleet, ship, member, etc. of a hostile nation
  3. a person hostile to an idea, cause, etc.
  4. anything injurious or harmful

Etymology: ME & OFr enemi < L inimicus, unfriendly, enemy < in-, not + amicus, friend: see amiable

adjective

  1. Obsolete hostile
  2. of an enemy; of a hostile nation

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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