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

So Paul concealed his plans from Madame Astier, in entire ignorance that she was running a countermine in the same line as his.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)

I seemed to myself perpetually upon the brink of being countermined, and perpetually roused to guard my designs.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack

The mine was countermined; but the continual labour to which the besieged were subjected became insupportable, and they were utterly unable to repair the many breaches in their works.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

But I soon perceived that the ambassador had countermined me.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington

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

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

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 Collett, Herbert Brayley

Parallels and approaches were constructed; mines sunk and countermining done.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

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

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