Definition of Counteracting

1. Verb. (present participle of counteract) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Counteracting

1. counteract [v] - See also: counteract

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counteracting

counter-trial
counter batten
counter check
counter checks
counter conditioning
counter culture
counter intelligence
counter strategy
counter tube
counteraccusation
counteraccusations
counteract
counteracted
counteracter
counteracters
counteracting (current term)
counteractingly
counteraction
counteractions
counteractive
counteractively
counteractor
counteractors
counteracts
counteradvertising
counteragent
counteragents
counteraggression
counteraggressions
counterair

Literary usage of Counteracting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"If the main battery and the counteracting battery be connected with a coil and line wire, and if the strength of the counteracting battery be such as to ..."

2. Elements of Political Economy by Joseph Shield Nicholson (1903)
"counteracting Causes. — So long as the conditions laid down remain the same, ... And it is in the answer to this question that the counteracting causes are ..."

3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"It is known to have been erected a short while before the Revolution, by a few earnest Protestant Christians, as a means of counteracting a Catholic school ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"On the Influence of Belladonna in counteracting {he Poisonous Effects of Opium.—Dr. Graves had first suggested that in continued fever, with protracted ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1855)
"(231) counteracting Currents: Gas Battery.—We shall now resume the consideration of those forms of voltaic combination which are the most important in ..."

6. Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Sutherland Mrs Orr (1908)
"... Shelley—Prolonged Influence of Shelley—Details of Home Education—Its Effects—Youthful Restlessness—counteracting Love of Home—Early Friendships: Alfred ..."

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