counterplot
Americannoun
verb
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(tr) to oppose with a counterplot
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(intr) to devise or carry out a counterplot
Etymology
Origin of counterplot
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Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!
From Time Magazine Archive
From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since the starlings were plainly not going to migrate from Radford of their own accord, the townsfolk and various wildlife experts hatched a counterplot.
From Time Magazine Archive
An obscure period of plot and counterplot followed which culminated in the ruin of Marcel and his followers.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.
From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott
Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
There followed a long contest, in which there was plotting and counterplotting on one side and on the other, and manœuvres without end.
From Margaret of Anjou Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
During the whole reign they were plotting and counterplotting, mining and undermining.
From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.
From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat
Over the plotting and counterplotting, the rivalries and jealousies which followed, we must pass.
From Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall
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