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Answer for the clue "A vigorous and unrestrained response ", 12 letters:
counterblast

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Word definitions for counterblast in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
counterblast \counterblast\ n. a vigorous and unrestrained verbal response; as, her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Counterblast may refer to: Counterblast (band) , a Swedish band Counterblast (film) , 1948 British film

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vigorous and unrestrained response; "her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.

Usage examples of counterblast.

For I have abundant evidence that it has made many practitioners more cautious in their relations with puerperal females, and I have no doubt it will do so still, if it has a chance of being read, though it should call out a hundred counterblasts, proving to the satisfaction of their authors that it proved nothing.

The agrarian-based biblical and republican strandsboth variations on the duty ethic first formulated in mythic-membership culturesseem to be the only available counterblasts to the hyperindividualism and "unencumbered self" of modernity.

Macha shouted, pointing to where the offworlders weaved back and forth, dodging the powerful counterblasts of his heavy wall crystals.