counteract

noun · verbB2

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noun
Plural noun:
counteracts
  1. 1.

    An action performed in opposition to another action.

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verb
V_es/s
counteracts
V_ing/Gerund
counteracting
V_ed/pp
counteracted
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something.

    1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica - Dome In India, in the “great mosque” of Jama Masjid (a.d. 1560) and the Gol Gumbaz, or tomb of Mahommed Adil Shah (a.d. 1630) at Bijapur, the domes are carried on pendentives consisting of arches crossing one another and projecting inwards, and their weight counteracts any thrust there may be in the dome.

    Đồng nghĩa: offset, counterpoise

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.

    2016, Margaret Corvid writing in the New Statesman, Five practical things you can do to fight Donald Trump if you live in the UK When people hear my American accent, they want to talk to me about Donald Trump. They want to ask me what happened, and why. But most of all, they ask me – with fear filling their voices – what they can do, as individuals, to counteract him, here, from the United Kingdom.

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