enmity

noun
🔊/ˈenməti/
🔊/ˈenməti/
[uncountable, countable]
(plural enmities)
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  1. feelings of hate towards somebody敌意;敌对;仇恨
    • Personal enmities and political conflicts have soured relations within the department.个人仇恨和政治冲突使该部门内部的关系恶化。
    • Her action earned her the enmity of two or three colleagues.她的行动激起了两三个同事对她的怨恨。🔊🔊
    • enmity between A and B the traditional problem of the enmity between Protestants and Catholics新教徒和天主教徒之间互相仇视的传统问题
    see also enemy
    Extra Examples
    • his enmity towards the Church他对基督教会的敌对情绪
    • the fierce enmity between the two groups两个群体之间的强烈敌意
    • Their families' traditional enmity made marriage impossible.他们的家人传统上的仇恨使婚姻不可能实现。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • bitter
    • age-old
    • lasting
    verb + enmity
    • earn (somebody)
    • incur
    • put aside
    preposition
    • enmity between
    • enmity towards/​toward
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French enemi(s)tie, based on Latin inimicus, from in- ‘not’ + amicus ‘friend’.