to countermine
9.9
To dig or explode enemy mines and tunnels to stop them
- verb
- /ˈkaʊntərˌmaɪn/
- Specialized
:
contraminado
- The soldiers devised a plan to countermine the enemy's tunnels before launching their attack.
Examples
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To protect their position, the engineers were ordered to countermine the area where enemy forces had been digging.
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During the operation, the troops had to countermine strategically to avoid triggering any hidden explosives.
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You've countermined my orders once today.
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Patrick Henry High School could have been the end of the world for me; some teachers, most administrators, and that insidious social worker countermined the humor of minorities, crossblood identities, and the credence of students who were poor and lived in faulted families.
Fiction book (1990)
How Thoroughly
to destroy
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
to countermine
- Specialized
to disarm
93
3.9
93
3.9
to locate
533
2.7
533
2.7
to detect
763
3.2
763
3.2
Surface Forms
countermine infinitive
countermined past
countermined past participle
countermining present participle
countermines third person singular
Morphology
Etymology
Countermine comes from counter 'against' and mine 'tunnel' or 'underground explosive', so to countermine is to act 'against' enemy mines or tunnels by digging or destroying them.