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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

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural arch·en·e·mies.

    • : a chief enemy.
    • : Satan; the Devil.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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.