Countermine vs Countermined - What's the difference?
countermine | countermined |
A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 436:
*:Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine , but the tunnel was now far too close for that.
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
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(countermine)
A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 436:
*:Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine , but the tunnel was now far too close for that.
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
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As verbs the difference between countermine and countermined
is that countermine is to plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another while countermined is past tense of countermine.As a noun countermine
is a mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.countermine
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
Verb
(countermin)- every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.
Synonyms
* (to plot opposition) counterplotcountermined
English
Verb
(head)countermine
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
Verb
(countermin)- every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.