Definition of "counterstroke" []

• An act done in revenge. (noun)

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• "And I don't like the argument that the counterstroke is our fault."
• "Blowing up the Saudi ambassador in Washington would be an appealing counterstroke against the two foreign forces that Khamenei detests most."
• "Thus, by the standards of the time, western Europeans launched their counterstroke of the Crusades essentially as quickly as they possibly could after it first became feasible for them to do so — and not centuries after the insult."