counterwork
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
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work done in opposition to other work
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defensive fortifications put up against attack
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of counterwork
Example Sentences
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If the Syracusans succeeded in completing and holding this counterwork, the blockade of Syracuse would be rendered impossible.
From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
Grote wrote his history of Greece to counterwork the party bias of Mitford.
From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander
Let it be to abjure thy malice; to counterwork this hellish stratagem; to turn from me and from my brother, this desolating rage!
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden
Two reigns which never have ceased and never can cease to counterwork each other, the reign of the Word and the reign of the Sword.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
It removed one of the two influences which had protected Constantine and enabled him to counterwork Entente policy and strategy in the Near East.
From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
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