Counteracted
[,kauntə'ræktid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Counteract
Checker: Witt
Examples
- 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.
Checker: Witt