countercharge
Americannoun
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a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
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military a retaliatory charge
verb
Etymology
Origin of countercharge
Example Sentences
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Alcocer worked on creating a countercharge to detonate the fireworks inside the vessel, according to the inspector general’s report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The 150-year-old, recently digitized map depicts the Battle of Antietam — not with the usual scenes of charge and countercharge, but as one vast cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2020
It’s the stuff of the cheating husband whose wife finds a telltale hotel receipt in his suit and who responds to her charge with the outraged countercharge, “You went through my pockets?”
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2014
In this environment of acrimony and charge and countercharge, the anger of Majed al-Muhammad, the retired sergeant major, was of a type fueled by frustration and loss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2012
The enemy thinking we intended to make a general attack, concluded to anticipate it by a countercharge, which they did, just as we wanted them to do, and they were repulsed all along the lines.
From Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac by Thomas, Hampton Sidney
The challenger barely stepped out of the way when the alpha countercharged.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019
Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing to report all his philanthropies, he had actually overpaid his 1931 income tax by $139,045.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brierites countercharged that the quarrel was over the principal's treatment of the school janitor, Sergeant York's brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Citizens-for-Johnson" Director John B. Connally countercharged that Kennedy secretly suffers from Addison's disease, an incurable but now controllable deficiency of adrenal secretions.
From Time Magazine Archive
On an encaustic tile at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, founded by him: The double-headed eagle only, countercharged.
From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Actual controlled detonations were more common in decades past, because without advanced robotic technology, countercharging was the easiest way to render bombs safe.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2013
But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng.
From Time Magazine Archive
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