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Counterblast

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.

    "This four-coach train, which included a restaurant car and typewriting facilities, ran between Broad Street [London], Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and was put on in February, 1910, as a counterblast to the improved service to Birmingham which the G.W.R. was to introduce with the opening of the shortened route via Bicester."

  2. 2
    a vigorous and unrestrained response wordnet

Etymology

From counter- + blast.

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