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countermine

[kaun-ter-mahyn, kaun-ter-mahyn, kaun-ter-mahyn] / ˈkaʊn tərˌmaɪn, ˌkaʊn tərˈmaɪn, ˈkaʊn tərˌmaɪn /


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Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

A U.S. defense official said the military was using a combination of manned and unmanned capabilities in the countermine operation, but declined to comment on operational specifics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Extremely few flag officers ever served as countermine officers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Called the AQS-24, the technology merges sonar with laser mine scanning and human command and control to sustain high-resolution countermine sensing and identification at speeds as fast as 18-knots.

From Fox News ● Feb. 28, 2020

In the latter case they have stairs leading down into a counterscarp gallery, which serves as a base for countermine galleries, and is connected with the detached bastion by a gallery under the ditch.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

The morning came, the long desired sun arose, and all his plots were countermined, all his hopes of immediate action paralyzed, if not utterly destroyed.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

Israel soon discovered, that though rejoiced to welcome the return of the prodigal son—so some called him—his father still remained inflexibly determined against the match, and still inexplicably countermined his wooing.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

The deep mines of sin and of alienation are all undermined and countermined by His love.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

They countermined the assailants, and, encountering them in the subterraneous passages, drove them back, and demolished the frame-work of the galleries.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Plainly I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined.

From The Iron Heel by Jack London

And many a U.S. diplomat, busily countermining the British, worries more about them than he does about the Russians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whilst they played wits against me—against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born—I was countermining them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Having imparted this discovery to his friend Hatchway, they came to a resolution of countermining the plan of their enemies.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Then commences a lively contest to determine who can dig the fastest, and make the most rapid progress in this contest of mining and countermining.

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson

On sentry in the firebay, or the hov'ring 'plane, Mining and countermining yet again.

From Over the Top With the Third Australian Division by Neil McBeath


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