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The enemy

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(Mil.) the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours.

See also: Enemy



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The enemy was so frightened when they saw me, that they leaped out of their ships, and swam to shore, where there could not be fewer than thirty thousand souls.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
[1330b] have easy access to it; but that it may be difficult of access to, and hardly to be taken by, the enemy.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
The young men made inquiries and ascertained that the enemy was advancing by way of Houdin and Bethune.
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