Countermine

Definition: Countermine

Countermine

Noun

1. (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy.

Verb

1. Destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war".

2. Destroy enemy mines with one's own mines: "We countermined the banks of the river".

Date "countermine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Synonyms: Countermine

Synonyms: counteract (v), sabotage (v), subvert (v), undermine (v), weaken (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Opposition	Be at cross purposes; play at cross purposes; counterwork, countermine; thwart, overthwart; work against, undermine.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Countermine

English words defined with "countermine": Countermined, Countermining. (references)

Expression using "countermine": countermine operation. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "countermine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏لغم مضاد, ‏خطة مضادة. (various references)

Bulgarian		контрамина (counterplot), противомярка (counterblast), противодействувам (counteract, counterwork), провалям (circumvent, damn, defeat, kill, pip, shipwreck, vote down), правя контрамина. (various references)

Czech		podkop. (various references)

French		contre-mine. (various references)

Hungarian		ellenaknát helyez el, ellenakna. (various references)

Italian		controminare. (various references)

Manx		obbraghey noi (combat). (various references)

Pig Latin		ounterminecay

Portuguese		contraminar, contramina. (various references)

Romanian		contraminã. (various references)

Russian		контрмина, закладывать контрмины. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ratno lukavstvo (stratagem), poremetiti nečije planove, kontramina. (various references)

Spanish		complotar. (various references)

Ukrainian		контрмінувати. (various references)

Vietnamese		phản kế (counterplot), mìn chống mìn kẻ chống lại âm mưu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "countermine": countermined, countermines. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Countermine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: counterline. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: countermen.
	-2 letters: centurion, contemner, continuer, encounter, increment, inurement, mentioner, neutronic, nonmetric.
	-3 letters: ceinture, continue, cretonne, enuretic, erection, incenter, intercom, meteoric, mutineer, neotenic, neoteric, neuronic, neurotic, neutrino, nocturne, noncrime, renounce, routemen, unerotic.
	-4 letters: centime, centimo, centner, centrum, cerumen, coenure, coenuri, cointer, contemn, cornute, coterie, counter, eminent, enounce, enteric, enteron, enticer, eucrite, incomer, interne, intoner, mention.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: countermined, countermines.
	+3 letters: incommensurate.
	+4 letters: noncomputerized, overdocumenting.
	+5 letters: intercommunicate, intercommunities, nondocumentaries, pronunciamentoes, triboluminescent.
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Countermine

Definition: Countermine

Countermine

Noun

Verb

Synonyms: Countermine

Synonyms within Context: Countermine

Opposition

Crosswords: Countermine

Expression: Countermine

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Countermine

countermine

Modern Translation: Countermine

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Bulgarian

Czech

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Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

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Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Derivations & Misspellings: Countermine

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Anagrams: Countermine

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
countermine	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.