5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Countermine \Coun"ter*mine`\ (koun"t[~e]r*m[imac]n`), n. [Counter- + mine underground gallery: cf. F. contermine.] 1. (Mil.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy. [1913 Webster] 2. A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated. [1913 Webster] Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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}.] 1. (Mil.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine. [1913 Webster] 2. To frustrate or counteract by secret measures. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Countermine \Coun`ter*mine"\, v. i. To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly. [1913 Webster] 'Tis hard for man to countermine with God. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: countermine n : (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy v 1: destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: {sabotage}, {undermine}, {counteract}, {subvert}, {weaken}] 2: destroy enemy mines with one's own mines; "We countermined the banks of the river" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 49 Moby Thesaurus words for "countermine": abri, angle, approach trench, brew, bunker, cabal, collude, communication trench, complot, concoct, connive, conspire, cook up, counterplot, coupure, ditch, double sap, dugout, engineer, entrenchment, finagle, finesse, fire trench, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, frame, frame up, gallery, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, intrigue, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, mine, moat, operate, parallel, plot, rig, sap, scheme, slit trench, trench, tunnel, wangle
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