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counterstrokes

counterstrokes is the plural of counterstroke.

Meaning of counterstroke

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

Questions about counterstrokes

What is counterstrokes the plural of?
Counterstrokes is the plural of counterstroke.

Words near counterstrokes in the dictionary

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

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