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counterchange

counterchange verb: to give and receive; C; to exchange.

Verb

counterchange (third-person singular simple present counterchanges, present participle counterchanging, simple past and past participle counterchanged)

  1. To give and receive; C; to exchange.
  2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
    • Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 89, lines 1781–1782

Noun

counterchange (plural counterchanges)

  1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
  2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
    • But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms of counterchange

Forms of counterchange

Verb
third-person singular presentcounterchanges
present participlecounterchanging
past participlecounterchanged
pastcounterchanged
Noun
pluralcounterchanges

Origin of counterchange

From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb).

Questions about counterchange

What does counterchange mean?
Counterchange means to give and receive; C; to exchange.
What part of speech is counterchange?
Counterchange can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of counterchange?
The past tense of counterchange is counterchanged.

Words near counterchange in the dictionary

  1. countercations
  2. countercause
  3. countercauses
  4. counterchallenge
  5. counterchallenges
  6. counterchange
  7. counterchanged
  8. counterchanges
  9. counterchanging
  10. countercharge
  11. countercharged

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