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counterblast

counterblast noun: a work that strongly refutes or criticises another.

Noun

counterblast (plural counterblasts)

  1. A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.
    • This four-coach train, which included a restaurant car and typewriting facilities, ran between Broad Street [London], Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and was put on in February, 1910, as a counterblast to the improved service to Birmingham which the G.W.R. was to introduce with the opening...1950 August, “Main-Line Trains at Broad Street”, in Railway Magazine, page 505

Forms of counterblast

pluralcounterblasts

Origin of counterblast

From counter- + blast.

Questions about counterblast

What does counterblast mean?
Counterblast means a work that strongly refutes or criticises another.
What part of speech is counterblast?
Counterblast is a noun.
What is the plural of counterblast?
The plural of counterblast is counterblasts.

Words near counterblast in the dictionary

  1. counterbids
  2. counterblackmail
  3. counterblackmailed
  4. counterblackmailing
  5. counterblackmails
  6. counterblast
  7. counterblasts
  8. counterbled
  9. counterbleed
  10. counterbleeding
  11. counterbleeds

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