Crossword clues for countermine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countermine \Coun`ter*mine"\ (koun`t[~e]r*m[imac]n"), v. t. [Cf. F. contreminer.] [imp. & p. p. Countermined; p. pr. & vb. n. Countermining.]
(Mil.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
Countermine \Coun`ter*mine"\, v. i. To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
'Tis hard for man to countermine with God.
--Chapman.
Countermine \Coun"ter*mine`\ (koun"t[~e]r*m[imac]n`), n.
(Mil.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
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A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
--Sir P. Sidney.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel. 2 An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy. 3 A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated. vb. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
WordNet
n. (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy
v. destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: sabotage, undermine, counteract, subvert, weaken]
destroy enemy mines with one's own mines; "We countermined the banks of the river"
Usage examples of "countermine".
And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses' feet, flight, pursuit, victory.
And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea-fights.
If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral mother, I might have made some money last week instead of being counterprayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck.
We mined the organisation of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organisation.
The Department of Indigenous Affairs had fought off its rivals and secured its borders, but now there were bitter skirmishes in the corridors, and mines and countermines were being dug through the fabric of the Palace as the warring departments tried to break out behind each other's lines.
If we can carry it the city must fall, but they have run countermines all round it, and the walls are so enormously thick that it would be an immense labour to breach it with artillery.
Over the next weeks other parts of the wall were blown up, while from the ramparts the defenders fired back in vain, for now the enemy moved underground, and the countermines were unable to dislodge him.
Whilst they played wits against me, against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born, I was countermining them.
The countermining operations of the men of Ar had apparently been desultory or incompetent.