Definitions

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  • noun A magic spell that reverses the effects of some other previous spell.

Etymologies

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counter- +‎ spell

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Examples

  • The large amount of casters in the first part of the dungeon required him to cast counterspell, which is usually enough to make any mage pretty miffed, and as we made our way deeper into the instance, the ghouls that excrete deadly gasses when they are vanquished really became a threat to Smokey's rather modest health bar.

    no more cats... nathreee 2008

  • He had heard the woman's voice chanting, had prepared to resist, to speak a counterspell, and a thin, high voice had cried "Be gone," and white lightning seemed to burst from the ground or from Elizabeth herself, and fling him away.

    Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • "You break a counterspell and they'll know one of us is a mage!"

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • Even more difficult was the fact that the wrong kind of counterspell could end a subject’s coma by killing him.

    Solitary Man Jeff Mariotte 2003

  • Sora shrunk her magic circle and raised her hand at Hitomi, but she was too slow to cast a counterspell.

    Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.2 - c.4 H-M Brown 2011

  • That much I can do, with your help"Then the keystone has to be carried to the place where the Barrier is, and triggered there to release the counterspell-by a second Wildmage. "

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • When you've found it, you'll need to take your keystone and place it on top of the Shadow Mountain keystone, then trigger the counterspell.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • He opened it to reveal a golden sphere of flawless crystal, which he lifted out and raised gently, his lips moving silently in the complicated counterspell that would release the stored energies contained within it.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Marlix feared they might be immune to his hurricane spell, but they turned out to be immune to arcance spells, including counterspell, which made it harder for us to pull them away to a quiet spot of the hall.

    Crossfire in Dire Maul: in over our heads nathreee 2008

  • And that was because nobody created a counterspell against something that didn't exist.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

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