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archenemy

/ahrch-en-uh-mee/US // ˈɑrtʃˈɛn ə mi //UK // (ˈɑːtʃˈɛnɪmɪ) //

大敌当前,大敌压境,大敌,大敌当道

Related Words

antagonist拮抗剂,拮抗者,敌手,拮据者 adversary对手,对抗者,对头,对方 foe冤家,仇人,敌人,仇敌 nemesis克星,仇人,仇敌,恶魔 opponent对手,反对者,对方,对立面

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural arch·en·e·mies.
- : a chief enemy.
- : Satan; the Devil.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounenemy

Synonyms

antagonist拮抗剂,拮抗者,敌手,拮据者 adversary对手,对抗者,对头,对方 archfoe拱门,弓箭手,拱桥,拱形物 foe冤家,仇人,敌人,仇敌 nemesis克星,仇人,仇敌,恶魔 opponent对手,反对者,对方,对立面

Examples

In the south, the Gulf States view their Persian nuclear neighbor as a permanent archenemy.
He now reveals that Rich kept Israel alive through boycotts by supplying the country with oil, much of it from its archenemy Iran.
But he was not prepared for the skilful trap which his archenemy was baiting for him, and into which he was to promptly fall.
Thus does that archenemy favour his friends for a time, and thus does he at last reward them.
Leithgow vouchsafed his archenemy no more than a look, but turned to the Hawk.
The archenemy and his angels are thus left upon an earth devoid of human beings.
He was not the archenemy of the movement (as some of the boys themselves thought): he simply had no use for it.

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