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counterstroke

[koun-ter-strohk]

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noun

a stroke or blow given in return.

Medicine/Medical. contrecoup.

RELATED WORDS

retribution, vengeance, retaliation, counterblow, requital

Origin of counterstroke

First recorded in 1590–1600; counter- + stroke¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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Historical Examples of counterstroke

Yet the settlers felt much safer when they learned that the redoubtable George Rogers Clark intended a counterstroke.
The Border Watch
Joseph A. Altsheler
Stroke and counterstroke and parry of rapiers and lightning-like motion glinted in the air.
Orphans of the Storm
Henry MacMahon
Counterstroke after counterstroke had failed, and Russia was now tottering towards a collapse.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
Herbert George Wells
It was a counterstroke by the worsted belligerent to get better terms of peace.
Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
Julian Stafford Corbett
The counterstroke of the President was one of the most effective passages of his message in its effect upon public opinion.
The Cleveland Era
Henry Jones Ford