enemy

noun

1. 1

   Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

   under enemy duress

   He made a lot of enemies after reducing the working hours in his department.

   You may not want any enemies, but sometimes, your enemies choose you.

   If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.

2. 2

   A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.

   Rally together against a common enemy.

3. 3

   Something harmful or threatening to another

   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.

4. 4

   Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.

   The building was destroyed by enemy bombing.

5. 5

   A non-player character that tries to harm the player.

   Use gadgets like Nakishkas to fend off enemies.

verb

1. 1

   To make an enemy of.

   But rather the life He has lived People he met Befriended and enemied

   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.

   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.

Forms

plural

enemies

past tense

enemied

past participle

enemied

present participle

enemying

third person singular

enemies