enemy
/ˈɛnəmi/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈɛnəmi/
enemy
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- Final y vowel sound
e - ne - my -> enemy
Myanmar meaning
(n) ရန်သူ။ ရန်ဘက်။ မျက်မုန်းကျိုး ခံရသူ။ (စစ်အတွင်း) ရန်သူ့တပ်။ ရန်သူ့ တပ်သား။ အဟန့်အတား။ ဆူးငြောင့်ခလုတ်။ ရန်သူ။
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၁။ [C] ရန်သူ။ ရန်ဘက်။ မျက်မုန်းကျိုး ခံရသူ။ Jane and Sarah used to be friends but now they are bitter enemies (ie of each other). ❍ His arrogance made him many enemies (ie made many people hate him).
၂။ (က) the enemy [Gp]
(စစ်အတွင်း) ရန်သူ့တပ်။ The enemy was/were forced to retreat. ❍ enemy forces/aircraft/ships ❍ enemy propaganda.
(ခ) [C] ရန်သူ့ တပ်သား။
၃။ [C] အဟန့်အတား။ ဆူးငြောင့်ခလုတ်။ ရန်သူ။ Poverty and ignorance are the enemies of progress.
More examples
- He must hide from his enemies while he is weak.
- [enemy of] : They had been labelled enemies of the state.
- [make an enemy of someone] : Worst of all is to make an enemy of the Minister.
- [make enemies] : It’s easy to make enemies in a job like this.
- [a mortal enemy] : She looked at her husband as if he were her mortal enemy.
- [a political enemy] : They searched for information on political enemies.
- We must be ready to resist an assault by sea from this country’s enemies.
- [the enemy] : He had to discourage the enemy from attempting to attack his position.
- [enemy attack/troops/aircraft/forces etc] : The Serbs were determined to halt the enemy attacks.
- Over three hundred enemy aircraft were destroyed.
- [enemy of] : Cigarette smoke is the undoubted enemy of a clear fresh complexion.
Synonyms
opponent, adversary, foe, rival, against the grain, agent, antagonist, anti, archenemy, asperser, assailant, assassin, at cross-purposes, at odds, attacker, backbiter, bad person, bandit, betrayer, calumniator, competing, competitor, contender, criminal, defamer, defiler, detractor, disputant, dissentient, emulator, falsifier, fifth column, guerrilla, in opposition, informer, inquisitor, invader, murderer, nemesis, obstructive, opposed, opposition, oppositional, other side, prosecutor, rebel, revolutionary, saboteur, seditionist, slanderer, spy, terrorist, traducer, traitor, up against, vilifier, villain
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