What is "countering"

Usage examples of "countering".

Wulfgar had no trouble deflecting the attacks, even countering now and then with a measured jab that thudded into Heafstaag's broad chest.

Each anticipated the other's movements exactly, countering the other's counter, back and forth in a battle that seemed as though it could know no victor.

The demodand was faster than the dwarf had expected, though, and it easily dodged the blow, countering with a clubbing blow of its arm that sent Bruenor skidding on his face farther down the bridge.

Finally Vierna managed to launch a countering spell and returned the room to its customary gloom.

Entreri held his ground, parrying furiously, trying to find a countering routine that would drive this possessed enemy back.

He looked down to it, hanging painfully from his forearm, and felt the burning tingle as Pwent's countering elixir bat­tled the poison.

Drizzt growled and increased his intensity, parrying and countering, still slashing up over his head.

Drizzt reversed his direction immediately, hoping to score a hit as the lance went past, but again Dantrag was too quick, snapping out his own sword and not only deflecting Drizzt's lunge, but countering with a slapping strike against the side of Drizzt's outstretched hand.

But Drizzt was countering even as he blocked, shifting his weight to his lead foot as his back foot kicked out, between his scimitar hilts, between Dantrag's surprised eyes.

How could Matron Baenre resist the psionicist without countering magic of her own?

The exchange of enchanted pellets from the defenders and countering dark magic from the invaders was furious.

They came together in a fit of fury, rage against rage, snarl against snarl, Pwent scoring several hits, but Uthegental, so strong and skilled, countering fiercely.

To the female's credit, she registered the countering move in time to parry the first attack, the second and the third, even the fourth.

So beautifully angled was Entreri's toss that the man's own quick parry strikes, one countering the spin of the other, gave Soulez the illusion that Entreri was still holding the other end of the blade.

But countering that seeming inevitability, in the end, is that the concept that is Mithral Hall will rise from the ashes of the funeral pyre.