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
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
With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!
From Time Magazine Archive
Conspiracy buffs will love the nearly incomprehensible swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it really were a part of the Government counterplot, as is very probable, it was not likely to be any of them.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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
Sir Robert Wingate listened while John Strong told the story of the plotting and counterplotting in Chicago.
From Ted Marsh on an Important Mission by Alice Carsey
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
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
He resolved to learn the nature of the plots that were in existence, before he commenced counterplotting.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton
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