counteract
verb (used with object)
to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
counteractive
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a word derived from
counteract.
Example Sentences
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Sepsis is “an incredibly robust reaction to fight infection” that becomes essentially counteractive, Azar said.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 5, 2016
Even changes as radical as moving habitats from water to land can be mitigated by counteractive niche construction.
From Scientific American ● May 22, 2013
Then Sir Douglas told of the counteractive efforts of his sales agencies in opening up new territory even in remote Belgian Congo; in introducing machines to 338,000 pupils in 12,000 European school classes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only efficiently counteractive mode of looking down the danger, in cases of this kind, is the mode adopted by Mr. Longmuir.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
No counteractive effect to this prepossession was to be found in contemporary opinion in Europe.
From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
