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View definitions for counter-action

counter-action

noun as in backlash

noun as in counterpoise

noun as in counterattack

noun as in backlash

noun as in counterpoise

noun as in counterattack

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Example Sentences

The walls were green, the furniture green—everything ordered in counter-action of light and heat.

Then there was a counter-action, a horrible breaking down of something inside him, a whole agony of reaction.

I refer to the mechanical counter-action of a sluggish circulation, through the agency of prolonged muscular contraction.

Whether this counter-action is to follow upon the enthusiasm that greets the great Guest, we dare not say.

If the identity expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.

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On this page you'll find 603 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to counter-action, such as: action, hostility, resistance, struggle, antinomy, and antithesis.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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