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Countermine

verb

(past & past part. countermined; pres. part. countermining)

Destroy property or hinder normal operations. Synonyms: counteract, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken.

Destroy enemy mines with one's own mines.

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"Countermine" Quotes from Famous Books

... a light to a train—and angry suspicions were blazing up one after another, but Amyas silenced them with a countermine. ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... company, I hang lead to my heels, and reduce to my thoughts my fortunes, my years, the duties of a man, of a friend, of a husband, of a father, and all the incumbencies of a family; when sadness dejects me, either I countermine it with another sadness, or I kindle squibs about me again, and fly ...

— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons

... plan as follows:—carrying it round within the wall he applied it to the ground in the city, and whereas the other places to which he applied it were noiseless, at those places where digging was going on the bronze of the shield gave a sound; and the men of Barca would make a countermine there and slay the Persians who were digging mines. This then was discovered as I have said, and the attacks were repulsed by ...

— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 1(of 2) • Herodotus

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