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Definition of Counterattack
1. Noun. An attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc..
Generic synonyms: Attack, Onrush, Onset, Onslaught
Specialized synonyms: Riposte
2. Verb. Make a counterattack.
3. Noun. (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board.
Definition of Counterattack
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of counter-attack) ¹
2. Verb. (alternative spelling of counter-attack) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counterattack
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterattack
Literary usage of Counterattack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civilian Devastation: Abuses by All Parties in the War in Southern Sudan by Jemera Rone, John Prendergast, Karen Sorensen (1994)
"SPLA-Torit counterattack on Nasir Territory in Early 1992 In early 1992, the
SPLA-Torit continued the counterattack, while the SPLA-Nasir attacked and then ..."
2. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"One of the French aviators had seen a German counterattack getting under way near
... Believing their plans for the counterattack were working favorably, ..."
3. Mystic Fiasco How the Indians Won the Pequot War by David R. Wagner, Jack Dempsey (2003)
"counterattack, in the name of parsimony. This means a total of 100 Pequots
Killed (either outright, or died of wounds) at Mystic.85 We will present all ..."
4. National Service Library edited by Charles Evans Kilbourne (1917)
"The crisis of this form of the defensive comes> with the counterattack, which
marks the change from the defensive to the offensive. Upon the superior leader ..."
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