| query | If someone is your e____, they hate you or want to harm you.If someone is your enemy, they hate you or want to harm you. |
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| word | enemy |
| full-definition | noun If someone is your enemy, they hate you or want to harm you. If someone is your enemy, they are opposed to you and to what you think or do. The Government's political enemies were quick to pick up on this series of disasters. The enemy is an army or other force that is opposed to you in a war, or a country with which your country is at war. The enemy were pursued for two miles. He searched the skies for enemy bombers. If one thing is the enemy of another thing, the second thing cannot happen or succeed because of the first thing. Reform, as we know, is the enemy of revolution. |
| inflections | enemies |
| cefr-level | B1 |
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