implacable enemy

collocation in English

meaningsofimplacableandenemy

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implacable
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈplæk.ə.bəl/us
/ɪmˈplæk.ə.bəl/
used to describe (someone who has) strong opinions or feelings that are impossible ...
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enemy
noun
uk
/ˈen.ə.mi/us
/ˈen.ə.mi/
a person who hates or opposes another person and tries to harm them or stop them from ...
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(Definition ofimplacableandenemyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Death was not a release f or them, but rather animplacableenemyto be resisted and overcome.
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In those days the message for the men was to fight a savage, cruel andimplacableenemyand to save their country from disaster.
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We talk as if we were besieged and harried by animplacableenemy, but we show by our actions that we know we are not.
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The people of this land fought in two world wars against animplacableenemy.
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Local government has fallen into the hands of its mostimplacableenemy.
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He was animplacableenemyof tyrants and tyranny, a formidable and dauntless fighter for the cause in which he had such deep faith.
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It is a deadly andimplacableenemy.
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Our chief anxieties are from a new enemy, animplacableenemy, efficient and steeped in fanaticism, attended with a disregard of death which cannot be anything but formidable.
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This speech can have been little relished, and the duke was henceforth hisimplacableenemy.
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Yourimplacableenemynow reels and staggers.
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Adams, in his diary, grieved that his best friend in the world had become hisimplacableenemy.
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This is not the way to create peace, only implacable enemies.
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And all this in the futile attempt to placate your deadly and implacable enemies!
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In reality, fundamental problems, providing the implacable enemies of peace with forceful arguments, still remain.
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They have done this by political guile, implacable enemies, and fierce warriors.
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The searching investigation which followed raised up against him many implacable enemies.
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However, they become implacable enemies because of their children, since their daughters are rivals in love.
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Her dedication to duty and uncompromising performance results in receiving numerous awards and promotions, earning the respect of interstellar empires, and accumulating implacable enemies.
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Before the first closure mission was half over, the group had split into two factions and people who had been intimate friends had become implacable enemies, barely on speaking terms.
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