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Countermine

verb
(past & past part. countermined; pres. part. countermining)
1.
Destroy property or hinder normal operations.  Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken.
2.
Destroy enemy mines with one's own mines.





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"Countermine" Quotes from Famous Books



... asked myself whether it would not first be more prudent to consult with Lancelot. For I knew that with Captain Marmaduke the first thing he would do would be to accuse Jensen to his face, without taking any steps to countermine him, and then we should have the hornets' nest about ...
— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... market-place; at any rate he said he could, and they all believed him. The Christians caused the Accursed Tower to totter; they made a breach below the Tower of Flies, in a most horrible part of the haven. Mine and countermine, Richard on the north side worked night and day, denying himself rest, food, reasonable care, for a week forgetful of Jehane and her hope. The weather grew stiflingly hot, night and day there was ...
— The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay • Maurice Hewlett
... their countermine, he found, was no deliverance. It had two plain results, and no more: the crest of the high field, without, had changed its contour next morning as though a monster had bitten it; and when the day had burnt itself out in sullen darkness, there burst on all sides an attack ...
— Dragon's blood • Henry Milner Rideout
... through excess of zeal, especially when the interests of her Paul were at stake. She would spoil all the chances in her eagerness to hasten the successful issue. So Paul concealed his plans from Madame Astier, in entire ignorance that she was running a countermine in the same line as his. He acted on his own account with great deliberation. The Princess was attracted by his youth and fashion, his brightness and his witty irony, from which he carefully took the venom. He knew that women, like children and the mob, and all impulsive ...
— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet


Words linked to "Countermine" :   military machine, mine, armed services, disobey, armed forces, military, war machine, counteract, countermeasure, weaken, subvert, undermine, derail


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