counteract
verb (used with object)
to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
were counteracting
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past progressiveof counteract.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Ukrainian troops were "counteracting attempts" by Russia to push its offensive towards the key Ukrainian town of Sloviansk, defence ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said at a briefing.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
Lacking a modern conception of nutrition, Eijkman assumed that the white rice must somehow be toxic and that the husks were counteracting the bad stuff.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2019
Custom-house officers, gendarmes, with enormous hats, and female commissionaires, were counteracting each other at every turn.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
He made very little progress, and perhaps Marlow's society might even have had some influence upon him—might have softened—mitigated his character; but that there were counteracting influences continually at work.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
Who can say, though she had led the life of a saint on earth, so far as any one could see, what subtle sins of life itself her pains were counteracting?
From 'Doc.' Gordon by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
