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Countermine

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.

    "Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that."

  2. 2
    (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy wordnet
  3. 3
    An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
  4. 4
    A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.

    "Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror."

Verb
  1. 1
    To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.

    "[…] every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him."

  2. 2
    destroy enemy mines with one's own mines wordnet
  3. 3
    to sap hostile mining. intransitive, transitive

    "[…]so Fritz could sleep easily in his trench, so far as mines were concerned; and Fritz, confident in his Herr Professors, altogether neglected any attempt to counter-mine."

  4. 4
    destroy property or hinder normal operations wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From counter- + mine.

Etymology 2

From counter- + mine.

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