Reverse Dictionary: ENEMY

ADJECTIVES
► COLD free from enemy fire → 1977 military usage
► ENEMIABLE having the disposition of an enemy; hostile → 1382 obs.
► ENEMYFUL resulting from the action of an enemy; hostile → 1382 obs.
► FRIEND-FOE potentially either a friend or an enemy → 1599
► GOOD of an enemy: dead or worthless → 1868 sl.
► HOT under enemy fire → 1864 US sl.
► INIMICAL having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly, hostile → 1678
► INTERNECINE of an enemy, hatred, etc.: mortal, deadly → 1692
► QUISLING collaborating with an enemy; traitorous, disloyal → 1941

ADVERBS
► ENEMYFULLY after the manner of an enemy → 1530 obs.
► FIENDLY like an enemy; angrily → a1000 obs.

NOUNS
► ACTION engagement with the enemy; fighting, armed conflict → 1579
► BOGEY an enemy aircraft or other enemy presence → 2007 UK sl. (Bk.)
► COLLABORATION traitorous cooperation with the enemy → 1940
► COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE a preventing the enemy from obtaining secret information → 1940
► COUNTERWORK a work raised in opposition to those of the enemy → 1650 military usage
► DANGER a place where one is at the mercy of an enemy → 1393 obs.
► DEATH DRIVE a campaign to hunt or kill an enemy → 1896
► DEJECTILE something thrown or impelled down upon an enemy → 1886
► DESPOILING the arms or clothing of an enemy → 1374 obs.
► ENEMYSHIP the relation of an enemy → 1776
► ENMITY 1. the disposition or feelings characteristic of an enemy → 1380
2. a being an enemy; mutual hostility → 1400
► MANSLAUGHT the slaying of an enemy in battle → a1000 obs.
► QUISLINGISM a collaborating with an occupying enemy force → 1940
► SKUNK a possible enemy craft → 1945 US Military sl.
► UNTHEDE a hostile or enemy force → 1225 obs.
► ZULULAND enemy territory → 1992 US sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ADVERSARY an enemy, foe, antagonist → 1350
► ADVERSE an adverse party; an adversary, an enemy → 1593 obs.
► ANDSETE ► ANSETE an enemy a foe → 1200 obs.
► ANTAGONISER ► ANTAGONIZER an enemy, an opponent, a critic → 1850
► ANTICHRIST a great enemy or opponent → 1650
► ANTIPATHIST a natural enemy or antagonist → 1815
► ARCH-ENEMY a chief enemy → 1550
► ARCH-FOE a chief enemy → 1615
► BACK-FRIEND a pretended or false friend; an enemy who pretends friendship; a secret enemy → 1472 obs.
► BAD GUY, THE a villain or enemy, an enemy soldier → 1932 colloq., orig. US
► BANDIT any enemy → 1975 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BRAVER a person who faced an enemy → 1589
► BUDDY-BUDDY one who is not a friend; an enemy; a disliked person → 1945 Amer. sl.
► COLLABO a person who collaborates with an enemy → 1944
► COLLABORATOR a person who collaborates with the enemy → 1943
► EPW enemy prisoner of war → 1973 US
► FA ► FAA an enemy, foe → a1000
► FAST FOE a persistent and long-standing enemy or rival → 1616
► FED ► FEDE an enemy; the fiend, the devil → a1400 obs.
► FIEND an enemy; foe → a1000 obs.
► FOEMAN a foe, an enemy, especially in warfare → a1000 arch.
► FOEMATE an adversary in battle, an enemy → 1592 obs.
► FOX IN THE HENHOUSE an enemy infiltrator → 1871
► FRENEMY a person who combines the characteristics of a friend and an enemy → 1891
► FRENNE a stranger, an enemy → 1579 obs.
► FRIEND-FOE a person who is both a friend and enemy; an enemy who appears to be a friend → 1596
► GAINSTANDER an opposer; an opponent; an enemy → c1575 obs.
► GOMER an enemy soldier, an adversary in combat → 1978
► GOOK an enemy soldier or sympathizer, as distinguished from a friendly or neutral local inhabitant → 1950 military sl.
► GOONER ► GOONEY ► GOONIE an enemy; a foreigner → 1944 US sl.
► HARD LOG a person who is difficult or dangerous to deal with; an aggressive or unsentimental person, a tough person; a dangerous enemy → 1929 US sl.
► HARD NUT ► HARD KNUT a person who is difficult or dangerous to deal with; an aggressive or unsentimental person; a tough, pugnacious, or recalcitrant person; a dangerous enemy → 1848
► HATTLE an enemy → 1905 (Bk.)
► HEAVY FATHER a troublesome or evil friend; an enemy → c1510 obs.
► HEAVY FRIEND a troublesome or evil friend; an enemy → 1554 obs.
► HETTLE an enemy → 1905 (Bk.)
► HORNET an enemy who attacks persistently and with virulence → 1590
► HOSTICIDE a person who kills his or her enemy → 1656 obs.
► I -FO a foe; an enemy, especially in warfare or in a deadly feud → a1000 obs.
► INIMI an enemy → 1423 Sc. obs.
► MALENGINE an enemy, an opposite → 1601 obs.
► MOABITE an enemy; a foe; with reference to the Moabites as enemies of Israel; often used as a term of abuse, esp. for a Roman Catholic → a1461 obs.
► MR. BAD FACE one’s competition or enemy → 1960s Amer. sl.
► NIGHT-FOE a nocturnal enemy or aggressor → 1601 obs.
► PAGAN ► PAIGON an enemy; a rival gang member → 2015 Black British sl.
► PERDUELL a stubborn opponent or enemy → 1623 obs.
► PUBLIC ENEMY an enemy common to a number of nations; a general enemy → 1548
► PUBLIC MENACE a public enemy → 1763
► QUISLING a person cooperating with an occupying enemy force; a collaborator; a traitor → 1940
► SATAN an enemy; an adversary → 1603 obs.
► SKY an enemy or adversary → 1816 Westminster school sl., obs.
► SOUR GRAPE an enemy; an adversary → 1939 Amer. dial.
► UNFRIEND an enemy; an opponent → 1275
► UNHOLD an enemy or foe → 1200 obs.
► UN-I-WINE an enemy → 1275 obs.
► UNWINE an enemy or foe → a1000 obs.
► VIAND an enemy → 1616 obs.
► WITHERSAKE an adversary, an enemy → a1000 obs.
► WITHERWIN an adversary, an enemy → a1000 obs.
► WOLF IN THE HENHOUSE an enemy infiltrator → 2006

PHRASES
► IT IS ALL HONEY, OR ALL TURD WITH THEM they are either close friends or bitter enemies, they fly from one extreme to the other → M18
► THE DEVIL IS DEAD an enemy or wrongdoer has been overcome → 1400

VERBS
► BETRAISE to deliver treacherously into the hand of an enemy → 1386 obs.
► COLLABORATE to cooperate traitorously with the enemy → 1941
► CROSS to encounter an enemy or danger face to face; to oppose or confront an enemy → 1581 obs.
► DAMNIFY to inflict injury upon an enemy in war → 1575 obs.
► DRAW CRABS ► DRAW THE CRABS to draw enemy fire → 1918 Aust. sl.
► ENDAMAGE to do harm to the enemy → 1555 military usage, obs.
► FALL OVER to go over to the enemy → 1595 obs.
► FIX SOMEONE’S CLOCK to cause trouble for an enemy; to get even with → 1905 US sl.
► FIX SOMEONE’S FLINT to cause trouble for an enemy; to get even with → 1835 US sl.
► HOSTILIZE to cause to be an enemy; to render hostile → 1794
► I-FEE ► I-VEE to make an enemy, put at enmity; to make hostile or hateful → a1000 obs.
► MANHANDLE to attack an enemy → 1470 obs.
► QUISLINGIZE to cause to become supportive of an occupying enemy force → 1940
► RESCOUNTER to meet with an enemy → 1543 obs.
► RETROYL to press back an enemy → 1425 obs.
► ROUT to defeat an enemy force → 1600
► SHEPHERD to force a body of the enemy into an unfavourable position → 1900 military sl.
► SLATE to punish an enemy severely → 1854 military usage
► SPIKE-BOZZLE to destroy an enemy aircraft completely → 1915 sl., orig. military usage