counteract
verb (used with object)
to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
uncounteracted
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a word derived from
counteract.
Example Sentences
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He was even by the "burr, burr, burr," uncounteracted by any preceding description of the boy's beauty, assisted in recalling them.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What conditions in the life of a student may, if uncounteracted, lead to poor health?
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
Going out with the disadvantage of a habit of mind uncounteracted by an intellectual aim, will never do.
From How to Observe Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau
He has even by the ‘burr, burr, burr’, uncounteracted by any preceding description of the boy’s beauty, assisted in recalling them.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
For infinite repulsion, uncounteracted and alone, is tantamount to infinite, dimensionless diffusion, and this again to infinite weakness; viz., to space.
From Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
