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Definition of Counterstrike
1. Verb. Make a counterattack.
Definition of Counterstrike
1. Noun. (military sports) The tactic of counterattacking ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To perform a counterstrike. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counterstrike
1. [v -STRUCK, -STRICKEN, -STRIKING, -STRIKES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterstrike
Literary usage of Counterstrike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mediapolis: popular Culture and the Cityby Alex de Jong, Marc Schuilenburg by Alex de Jong, Marc Schuilenburg (2006)
"Velvet-Strike is directed in a peaceful way toward the violence that occurs
between terrorists and military units in the well-known game of counterstrike in ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"A non-Socialist counterstrike of professional men brought the business life of
the city to a standstill. The strike at Halle continued absolute and broke ..."
3. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process by Alasdair Drysdale, Raymond A. Hinnebusch (1991)
"... could invite a preemptive strike, although their dispersal makes it hard for
Israel to destroy them all before Syria could launch a counterstrike. ..."
4. Decisive Force: Strategic Bombing in the Gulf War by Richard G. Davis (1998)
"Using an Israeli counterstrike as a wedge to split some or all of the Coalition's
Arab member states from the rest of the alliance, he would thereby disrupt ..."
5. High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force & the Military Space Program by Curtis Peebles (1998)
"... could attack the Soviet Union in the certain knowledge that a Soviet counterstrike
against the United States would fail. ..."
6. The Lessons of History: The Chinese People's Liberation Army at 75 by Laurie Burkitt, Andrew Scobell, Larry M. Wortzel (2003)
"Any such attack will inevitably result in a retaliatory nuclear counterstrike by
China. China has always kept the number of its nuclear weapons at a low ..."
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