verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To meet (something) in response to a thing; to counter.

   "I admire the question by which you have countermet and rebuked my own."

Example

More examples

"I admire the question by which you have countermet and rebuked my own."

Etymology

From counter- + meet.

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