Word Finder - enemies

definition

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

example

Crush the enemy!

synonyms

• adversary
• backfriend
• foe
• nemesis
• unfriend

definition

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

example

Rally together against a common enemy.

synonyms

• adversary
• foe
• nemesis

definition

Something harmful or threatening to another

definition

To make an enemy of.

The enemies' warriors were in place.

The attacks were too powerful for the capabilities of our enemies alone.

Sometimes his enemies were very close upon him.

You've got some enemies that are going to give us a run for our money.

Sasha.s enemies are here in the forest.

With your long list of enemies, I'm not certain which would've sent them.

You have a list of enemies longer than mine, and he's obligated to protect you.

They are in the mountains, in a land hard for your enemies to cross.

Bengal was prosperous, and free from external enemies on every quarter.

The way he and Jule had talked to each other, like long-lost enemies, reminded her she didn't know much about her father.

Seeing the enemies exchanging friendly greetings, she rode up to them.

But no, he has preferred to surround himself with my enemies, and with whom?

We are not one another's enemies, and we'll never defeat our common enemy so long as we're squabbling.

Good old Jerome has a knack for making enemies.

He set up an " intelligence bureau " in Rome, instituted mysteries like those of Eleusis, from which his particular enemies the Christians and Epicureans were alike excluded as " profane," and celebrated a mystic marriage between himself and the moon.

Mehemet Ali was fully conscious that the empire which he had so laboriously built up might at any time have to be defended by force of arms against his master Sultan Mahmud II., whose whole policy had been directed to curbing the power of his too ambitious valis, and who was under tha influence of the personal enemies of the pasha of Egypt, notably of Khosrev, the grand vizier, who had never forgiven his humiliation in Egypt in 1803.

When she referred to our conversation again, it was to ask, "Why did not Jesus go away, so that His enemies could not find Him?"

Furious at the idea, Gabe began to wonder how the reincarnated Deidre made it this far without being slaughtered by one of her many enemies.

I've eliminated innumerable enemies of yours the past few years.

She.d seen the acrimonious relationship between him and Kris and understood some of what made them enemies.

To be more powerful, so I can wipe out my enemies and force my brothers to stay in the Council.

It'll make a good target for your enemies.

She threatened to reveal the secret of his gem to his enemies, a secret recently spilled.

I created an army of vamps Eden used to overthrow her enemies while I overthrew mine.

The latter was a great magician, able, by operating upon waxen figures of the armies and ships of his enemies, to obtain complete power over their real actions.

They promised an easy expiation for crimes to both living and dead on payment of a fee, undertook to punish the enemies of their clients, and held out to them the prospect of perpetual banqueting and drinking-bouts in Paradise.

Among these petty chieftains, Sargon in 715 mentions Dayukku, "lieutenant of Man" (he probably was, therefore, a vassal of the neighbouring king of Man in the mountains of south-eastern Armenia), who joined the Urartians and other enemies of Assyria, but was by Sargon transported to Hamath in Syria "with his clan."

Only the Samnites, who were as yet without the Roman franchise, remained his enemies, and it seemed as if the old war between Rome and Samnium had to be fought once again.

Then came the memorable "proscription," when for the first time in Roman history a list of men declared to be outlaws and public enemies was exhibited in the forum, and a reign of terror began throughout Rome and Italy.

His monument bore an inscription written by himself, to the effect that he had always fully repaid the kindnesses of his friends and the wrongs done him by his enemies.

In the Guarani language "Charrua" means turbulent, and by their enemies the Charruas were accounted as such, and even ferocious, although admitted to be generous to their captives.

Having cowed the disaffected elements in the state, he turned his attention to foreign enemies.

He looks upon the enemies of the Christian Church with unconcealed hatred.

He regained his ascendancy over the king, punished his enemies and forced Marie de' Medici and Gaston of Orleans to sue for pardon.

The Abbasids hunted their enemies down without mercy.

After buying peace by the cession of Acarnania (217) the league concluded a compact with Rome, in which both states agreed to plunder ruthlessly their common enemies (211).

But as a champion of republican Greece against foreign enemies no other power of the age rendered equal services.

In many districts where such woods once existed, their place has been occupied by the Scottish pine and spruce, which suffer less from the ravages of goats, the worst enemies of tree vegetation.

The resistance to these inroads became gradually feebler, and it is said that on the 5th of July 907 almost the whole of the Bavarian race perished in battle with these formidable enemies.

The funds of the suppressed order of Jesus, which Maximilian Joseph had destined for the reform of the educational system of the country, were used to endow a province of the knights of St John of Jerusalem, for the purpose of combating the enemies of the faith.

The whole proceedings were illegal, and the illegality was consummated by the prisoners being brought before a special tribunal of 24 judges, nearly all of whom were personal enemies of the accused.

Prempeh defeated his enemies, and for a time peace and prosperity returned to Ashanti.

The first of these centred round the restless and unruly Welfs; after a time these insurgents were joined by their former enemies, the rulers of Saxony, of Thuringia and of Meissen, who were angered by Henrys conduct.

The process of division and subdivision which steadily went on broke up Germany into a bewildering multitude of principalities; but as a rule the members of each princely house held together against common enemies, and ultimately they learned to arrange by private treaties that no territory should pass from the family while a single representative survived.

The number of his enemies was increased by his successful attack on his Jesuit confessor Ribera, who with other members of the college of Milan was found to be guilty of unnatural offences.

The disputes between Segesta and Selinus called in these enemies also.

His enemies of all races now declared themselves.

Yet Dionysius himself sought fame as a poet, and his success at Athens shows that his compositions did not deserve the full scorn of his enemies.

Although a warmly patriotic Roman, he does full justice to the merits of the barbarian enemies of the empire, particularly the Ostrogoths; although the subject of a despotic prince, he criticizes the civil and military administration of Justinian and his dealings with foreign peoples with a freedom which gives a favourable impression of the tolerance of the emperor.

Thus ended Mehemet Alis first massacre of his too confiding enemies.