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recounteract

recounteract verb: to counteract again.

Verb

recounteract (third-person singular simple present recounteracts, present participle recounteracting, simple past and past participle recounteracted)

  1. To counteract again.
    • Whether the variation of the rates of value of labor in the two countries was made to facilitate the organization of a decimal currency, (which, by the by, however good in itself, has always proved discordant and cumbersome when applied to the reained octave subdivisions of weights and measures...1858, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, Debow's Review
    • A small proportion of licorice is preferably included for the purpose of recounteracting any bitterness which may be due to the presence of the grains.1927, LA Negly, PS Black, Preparing cereal-beverage compounds (US Patent 1,631,830)

Forms of recounteract

third-person singular presentrecounteracts
present participlerecounteracting
past participlerecounteracted
pastrecounteracted

Origin of recounteract

From re- + counteract.

Questions about recounteract

What does recounteract mean?
Recounteract means to counteract again.
What part of speech is recounteract?
Recounteract is a verb.
What is the past tense of recounteract?
The past tense of recounteract is recounteracted.

Words near recounteract in the dictionary

  1. recountable
  2. recountal
  3. recountals
  4. recounted
  5. recounter
  6. recounteract
  7. recounteracted
  8. recounteracting
  9. recounteracts
  10. recounters
  11. recounteth

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