Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A blow delivered in return.
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- noun A
blow delivered in return of a previous blow by somebody else, such as an opponent in a boxing match.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a return blow; a retaliatory blow
Etymologies
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Examples
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She gave no thought to fending off a counterblow or to raising any sort of defense.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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She gave no thought to fending off a counterblow or to raising any sort of defense.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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She gave no thought to fending off a counterblow or to raising any sort of defense.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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She gave no thought to fending off a counterblow or to raising any sort of defense.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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All the blows give to this miserable creature forcefully struck the imagination of this mother and, bya sort of counterblow, the tender and delicate brain of her child....
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All the blows give to this miserable creature forcefully struck the imagination of this mother and, bya sort of counterblow, the tender and delicate brain of her child....
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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Then, for what seemed like forever, it was all shouting, blow and counterblow, screams and blood and last-minute parries, and far too many people trying to kill his Queen.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Then, for what seemed like forever, it was all shouting, blow and counterblow, screams and blood and last-minute parries, and far too many people trying to kill his Queen.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Minute by minute, you have a blow, a counterblow, a legal action, a countersuit, and so forth.
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[Castro] I believe the people dealt a remarkable political counterblow.
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