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Definition of "counterattack" [counterattack]

  • A return attack. (noun)
  • To deliver a return attack or make a return attack against. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "counterattack" in a sentence
  • "Mr. Feingold's counterattack is fierce and personal in ways that past campaigns of his weren't."
  • "Regardless of other issues that a nuclear conflict short of a massive exchange would cause (such as damage to the nation's electronic infrastructure from electromagnetic pulses from the blasts to even a small amount of nuclear soot being shoved into the atmosphere, and the concordant drop in global temperatures, etc.), no minor nuclear power could destroy the United States without a massive, nation-ending counterattack from the Americans."
  • "China, which defeated England on Friday 2-0, had a few shots in counterattack, but spent much of the game defending."