countermine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: countermine	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
countermine n (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy v destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" Synonym(s): sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken destroy enemy mines with one's own mines; "We countermined the banks of the river"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Countermine \Coun`termine"\ (koun`t[etil]rm[imac]n"), v. t. [Cf. F. contreminer.] [imp. & p. p. {Countermined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Countermining}.] 1. (Mil.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine. 2. To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Countermine \Coun`termine"\, v. i. To make a countermine* or counterplot; to plot secretly. 'Tis hard for man to countermine with God. --Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Countermine \Coun"termine`\ (koun"t[etil]rm[imac]n`), n. [Counter- + mine underground gallery: cf. F. contermine.] 1. (Mil.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy. 2. A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. --Sir P. Sidney.