counterattack

Word family noun attack counterattack attacker adjective attacking counterattacking verb attack counterattack

coun·ter·at·tack /ˈkaʊntərəˌtæk/ noun [countableC]

ATTACKan attack you make against someone who has attacked you, in a war, sport, or argument 反攻，反击

—counterattack verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

Examples from the Corpus

counterattack• But this week, the president embarked on a counterattack, using one of the guerrillas' favorite weapons: the media.• This will spark rounds of attack and counterattack ads.• Soft money helped pay for the contract and its follow-through, just as it helped finance the Democratic counterattack.• His father's famous counterattack in the Daily Mirror sounds like the machine-gun rattle of an old-fashioned typewriter.• Chavez unleashed a furious counterattack on his attacker.• And Lisbie knew Fiona wasn't going to let this one pass without a major counterattack.• Scattered in pursuit, they provided perfect weak points for our counterattack.• You turn away from the onslaught and, in so doing, remove all possibility of a strong, scoring counterattack.• But I still have to applaud this counterattack against tobacco's smoky glamour.

单词	counterattack
释义	counterattack Word family noun attack counterattack attacker adjective attacking counterattacking verb attack counterattack coun·ter·at·tack /ˈkaʊntərəˌtæk/ noun [countableC] ATTACKan attack you make against someone who has attacked you, in a war, sport, or argument 反攻，反击 —counterattack verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT] Examples from the Corpus counterattack• But this week, the president embarked on a counterattack, using one of the guerrillas' favorite weapons: the media.• This will spark rounds of attack and counterattack ads.• Soft money helped pay for the contract and its follow-through, just as it helped finance the Democratic counterattack.• His father's famous counterattack in the Daily Mirror sounds like the machine-gun rattle of an old-fashioned typewriter.• Chavez unleashed a furious counterattack on his attacker.• And Lisbie knew Fiona wasn't going to let this one pass without a major counterattack.• Scattered in pursuit, they provided perfect weak points for our counterattack.• You turn away from the onslaught and, in so doing, remove all possibility of a strong, scoring counterattack.• But I still have to applaud this counterattack against tobacco's smoky glamour.
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