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adversary

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"Opposing rival"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈæd.və.sɛɹi/Part of speech nounSorted aaderrsvyStarts with AEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. someone who offers opposition

Word origin

From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”). By surface analysis, adverse + -ary.

Used in a sentence

  • He prepared to fight his adversary.
  • In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have dreamed up a more formidable adversary than James Comey.
  • Yahweh′s turning Gog around, putting hooks in his jaws, and bringing him out from the remotest parts of the north (Ezek. 38:4-6) is now interpreted as the release of the Adversary from prison.

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