Counteract
[kaʊntər'ækt] or [,kaʊntɚ'ækt]
Definition
(verb.) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; 'This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues'.
Editor: Whitney--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Editor: Rochelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Oppose, contravene, resist, cross, thwart, hinder, check, defeat, frustrate, run counter to, act against, clash with.[2]. Neutralize, destroy the effect of.
Checker: Yale
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Counterinfluence, counterfoil, foil, baffle, neutralize, oppose, rival, thwart,hinder
ANT:Aid, help, abet, promote, conserve, co-operate, subserve
Typed by Claire
Examples
- His cheerfulness will counteract this. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I shall lay my plans so as to counteract or at least be prepared for theirs--that is all. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You have compromised me by being seen about with me, endeavouring to counteract this Mr Eugene Wrayburn. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Look, how they run and meet and counteract. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Emma laughed, and replied: But I had the assistance of all your endeavours to counteract the indulgence of other people. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Only an environment which secures the full use of intelligence in the process of forming habits can counteract this tendency. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Elinor submitted to the arrangement which counteracted her wishes with less reluctance than she had expected to feel. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The excitement of the campaign counteracted in George's mind the depression occasioned by the disinheriting letter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This extra force, which must be supplied if friction is to be counteracted, is in reality waste work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Only in this way can the centrifugal forces set up by juxtaposition of different groups within one and the same political unit be counteracted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- You have always been counteracting me secretly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his practice did him in counteracting his personal cares. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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