counterfeiting

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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

In May, 1788, a Russian Envoy arrived and began countermining Austria.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)

The art of countermining, and of counteracting the danger of mines exploding, was then very imperfectly understood, though that of besieging above ground had been brought to the very highest degree of perfection.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

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 McBeath, Neil