countermine

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

Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.

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

The growing modern mine threat is so significant, that the Navy has been fast-tracking a wide range of new countermine attack and defense strategies.

From Fox News ● Feb. 28, 2020

I know you did this mutiny design; But I'll your love-plot quickly countermine.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott

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

The officer at the mining-key knows from the spark that jumps across under his hand that the enemy has countermined and the harbor is clear.

From Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 by Various

For it was clear, was it not, that her mines must be countermined for her own sake and that of her belongings?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

But I soon perceived that the ambassador had countermined me.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds

They mined and countermined, until the whole area had been honeycombed.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

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

Arundel, whilst sentries stationed at various points were charged with the duty of listening for countermining and to act in case of a sudden break-through.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Herbert Brayley Collett

No explosion took place, however, and after our countermining work was completed, the garrison became reassured and remained in the fort at night as well as in day time.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

To fancy that I was instilling all these precepts at the very moment that he was countermining us.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever