Sekirov Dictionary

countermine

noun 3
verb 2
forms 3

noun3

•
A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
- Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that. — 1990
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
•
A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
- Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. — 1587

verb2

•
To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
- […] every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him. — 1749
•
to sap hostile mining.
- […]so Fritz could sleep easily in his trench, so far as mines were concerned; and Fritz, confident in his Herr Professors, altogether neglected any attempt to counter-mine. — 1923

forms

countermined · countermining · countermines

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