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| adversary |
a person, group, or thing opposed to another; opponent; enemy. |
| antagonist |
a person who contends or fights with another; enemy, competitor, or adversary. [2/3 definitions] |
| antagonize |
to bring on the hostility of; make an enemy of. [1/2 definitions] |
| antiaircraft |
designed for defense, esp. by ground-based weapons, against enemy air attack. [2 definitions] |
| antichrist |
an enemy of Jesus Christ. [1/2 definitions] |
| antimissile |
a ballistic device used in defense against enemy missiles. [1/2 definitions] |
| archenemy |
a chief or principal enemy. [1/2 definitions] |
| bad guy |
(informal) the villain or enemy in a fictional story. [2/4 definitions] |
| barrage balloon |
one of a number of anchored balloons from which wires or nets are suspended to discourage low-flying enemy aircraft from attacking military installations or cities. |
| beachhead |
the initial position or area that invading troops try to secure when landing on an enemy shore. [1/2 definitions] |
| besiege |
to surround with enemy forces; lay siege to. [1/2 definitions] |
| camouflage |
a method of concealing something such as a person, vehicle, or building, esp. from an enemy military force, by covering it or coloring it so as to imitate its surroundings. [1/5 definitions] |
| claymore mine |
a mine, planted in the ground, that is designed to explode in a fanlike array of fragments in the path of an enemy force. |
| collaborate |
to cooperate or work with an enemy force, esp. one occupying one's own country. [1/2 definitions] |
| collaboration |
the cooperative effort by persons or organizations with an enemy force, esp. one occupying one's own country. [1/2 definitions] |
| collaborationist |
one who willingly gives aid to an invading or occupying enemy force. |
| commando |
a small, specially trained military unit used for surprise assaults on enemy-held territory. [1/2 definitions] |
| contraband |
during the American Civil War, a slave under the Confederacy who fled to or was taken into territory occupied by Union forces. Such fugitive slaves were, in a sense, free, in that they were not returned by the Union to Confederate slave owners. Instead, however, they were declared captured enemy war materials, or "contraband of war." Thousands of contrabands worked as paid, though exploited, laborers for the Union. [1/5 definitions] |
| countercharge |
a military ground attack in response to that of an enemy. [1/4 definitions] |
| counterespionage |
espionage and other measures designed to frustrate enemy espionage. |
| counterintelligence |
a program of a government or other organization to frustrate enemy espionage, intelligence gathering, and subversion. |
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