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counterstroke

UK/ˈkaʊntəstɹəʊk/

counterstroke noun: a blow given in return.

Noun

counterstroke (plural counterstrokes)

  1. A blow given in return.
    • He met him with a counterstroke so swift, / That quite smit off his arme as he it up did lift.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. A retaliation.
    • The declaration of the Allied Governments that they will not conclude peace separately during the war or demand terms of peace without previous agreement with each other is an opportune counterstroke to the campaign initiated by Germany for the purpose of detaching France from Russia and especially...1914, Various, New York Times Current History= The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2
    • She could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hate until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke.1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber

counterstroke meaning in Tamil

counterstroke in Tamil

எதிர்த்தாக்கு, பதிலடி

Forms of counterstroke

pluralcounterstrokes

Origin of counterstroke

From counter- + stroke.

Questions about counterstroke

What does counterstroke mean?
Counterstroke means a blow given in return.
What is counterstroke in Tamil?
Counterstroke in Tamil is எதிர்த்தாக்கு, பதிலடி. See Counterstroke meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is counterstroke?
Counterstroke is a noun.
How do you pronounce counterstroke?
Counterstroke is pronounced /ˈkaʊntəstɹəʊk/ (UK).
What is the plural of counterstroke?
The plural of counterstroke is counterstrokes.

Words near counterstroke in the dictionary

  1. counterstreaming
  2. counterstreams
  3. counterstrike
  4. counterstrikes
  5. counterstriking
  6. counterstroke
  7. counterstrokes
  8. counterstruck
  9. counterstruggle
  10. counterstruggled
  11. counterstruggles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: counterstroke (page history and authors); counterstroke (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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