enemy

noun

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.”

   “Garrus: Fist knows you're coming. We'll have a better chance if we all work together. Wrex: My people have a saying: Seek the enemy of your enemy, and you will find a friend.”

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

   “Rally together against a common enemy.”

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. (attributive)Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.

   “The building was destroyed by enemy bombing.”

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

   “Use gadgets like Nakishkas to fend off enemies.”

verb

1. To make an enemy of.

   “These prelates and nobles, seeing themselves dispossessed by the death of this king don Alfonso, to whom they had adhered, and enemied with the king don Enrique his brother, whom they had deserted, were in great fear, dreading the indignation of the king, whom by letters and words they had much injured; and they found no other remedy for their defense but to continue the division which they had begun in the realm, raising for queen of it the princess doña Isabel in place of her brother.”

   “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.”