foe
a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
a military enemy; hostile army.
a person belonging to a hostile army or nation.
an opponent in a game or contest; adversary: a political foe.
a person who is opposed in feeling, principle, etc., to something: a foe to progress in civil rights.
a thing that is harmful to or destructive of something: Sloth is the foe of health.
Origin of foe
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Other definitions for F.O.E. (2 of 2)
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How to use foe in a sentence
But Brown had not been among those Johnson heard speak of the cops as foes.
90 Seconds of Fury in Ferguson Are the Key to Making Peace in America | Michael Daly | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.
Didn't Obama Hear Oregon’s Warning Shot on Immigration? | Doug McIntyre | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey decapitate those men deemed foes of their faith and celebrate the gore online, holding up the severed heads.
And decency is our great, guiding strength as we face such monstrous foes as ISIS.
From ISIS Videos to JLaw Nudes, When Is Looking Abetting Evil? | Michael Daly | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNevertheless, Grande manages to shoot her foes to smithereens.
Ariana Grande’s Gay-Friendly Intergalactic Dance Party | Amy Zimmerman | August 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
With twelve hundred foes around us, we had plenty to occupy all our thoughts and attention.
He sincerely hates all anti-tobaccoites and has a supreme disgust for the memory of King James I. and all royal foes of the plant.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Thus it fell to the lot of the Marshal once more to hand over Paris to the foes of those to whom his allegiance was due.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonWhen many foes appear new vows of an appropriate kind should be entered into against them.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamMost of them took him for a guerrilla fleeing from his foes, and looked in vain for blue-coated pursuers.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. Dunn
British Dictionary definitions for foe (1 of 2)
/ (fəʊ) /
formal, or literary another word for enemy
Origin of foe
1British Dictionary definitions for FoE (2 of 2)
Friends of the Earth
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