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counter-attack

noun as in counterattack

noun as in counterattack

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The other was to counter-attack against domestic critics while reassuring uneasy foreign leaders.

A brutal counter-attack on Gingrich by Romney's Super Pac cites National Review, Rush Limbaugh, and the Club for Growth.

Local television and YouTube should be running a Hagan counter-attack ad tomorrow.

On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.

Our beloved Queen had drawn the teeth of the Turkish counter-attack on our extreme left.

Thereupon, I gave the word for a general counter-attack and our line began to advance.

At the critical moment of the Austrian counter-attack at Dego, Lannes cleared the village by a brisk bayonet charge.

Our great difficulty in holding captured trenches is that the Turks always counter-attack with a large number of powerful bombs.

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On this page you'll find 334 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to counter-attack, 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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