Countermine

Quick meaning: Countermine is a noun meaning A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.

Meaning

A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.

More Meanings

1. An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
2. A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
3. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
4. (transitive, intransitive) to sap hostile mining.

Example Sentences

Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.

[…] every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.

Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that.

[…]so Fritz could sleep easily in his trench, so far as mines were concerned; and Fritz, confident in his Herr Professors, altogether neglected any attempt to counter-mine.

Word Forms

• countermines
• countermining
• countermined

Synonyms for countermine

Depending on context, synonyms include counterplot, undermine, subvert, counteract, sabotage, weaken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subvert, undermine, sabotage, counteract, weaken, counter-mine.

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