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Thanhnam46 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Enemy and Foe

What is the different between two words enemy and foe?

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To me, foe has a slightly stronger feeling of the foe causing bad things, and enemy slightly more of a position of being an enemy (which may perhaps not cause bad things actually to happen) - but there's a lot of overlap. Your enemy might be a very weak enemy, but your foe is as strong as you d

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  • To me, foe has a slightly stronger feeling of the foe causing bad things, and enemy slightly more of a position of being an enemy (which may perhaps not cause bad things actually to happen) - but there's a lot of overlap.
  • Your enemy might be a very weak enemy, but your foe is as strong as you d
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To me, foe has a slightly stronger feeling of the foe causing bad things, and enemy slightly more of a position of being an enemy (which may perhaps not cause bad things actually to happen) - but there's a lot of overlap.
Your enemy might be a very weak enemy, but your foe is as strong as you
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You can see it in the BBC news headline of the two Syrian sides meeting just now - "Syria foes briefly meet in same room at Geneva II talks" - d
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