deadly enemy

collocation in English

meaningsofdeadlyandenemy

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deadly
adjective
uk
/ˈded.li/us
/ˈded.li/
likely to ...
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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 ofdeadlyandenemyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We must recognise that we are faced with adeadlyenemythat will strike whenever it can.
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If there is to be co-operation against thisdeadlyenemy, if you are to have that co-operation, are you planning for it?
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It is time that we proceeded with reconciliation, as that is thedeadlyenemyof the paramilitarists.
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After all, what country in the world would seek mediation, or would accept mediation, from the arsenal of its mostdeadlyenemy?
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I know that some farmers regard it as a friend and others as adeadlyenemy.
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We cannot afford to ignore thatdeadlyenemy, diphtheria.
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We must not have inflation, because that is thedeadlyenemyof abstinence.
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It is perhaps the mostdeadlyenemywe have to meet.
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Thedeadlyenemyis democracy.
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Democracy is theirdeadlyenemy.
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Such one-man dictatorship is clearly thedeadlyenemyof any semblance of two-party government....
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He carried ammunition and maintained contact with the company command post, exposing himself todeadlyenemyfire.
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The narrator informs the audience that its carelessness in throwing away cigarettes and not extinguishing campfires is adeadlyenemyto wood.
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The antidote she needs is also the only thing capable of stopping adeadlyenemy.
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Ferus might not realize it, but his old rival is now his newdeadlyenemy.
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Despite his wounds and thedeadlyenemyfire, he crawled forward and destroyed the second bunker.
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That careful, precise approach has brought major success against a very dangerous anddeadlyenemy.
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But there is adeadlyenemyof wood: you.
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Cancer, though many more lives are saved to-day by early diagnosis, still remains one of the most deadly enemies of mankind.
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In twelve months we have exported arms and ammunition to the extent of £100,000,000 to one of our late deadly enemies.
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