counteract
/ˈkaʊntəɹˌækt/ verb C2- To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something.
- To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.
He/she/it counteracts · Past counteracted · Past participle counteracted · -ing form counteracting
Verb forms
- Base form
- counteract
- He/she/it
- counteracts
- Past
- counteracted
- Past participle
- counteracted
- -ing form
- counteracting
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The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given him originally great humility of manner; but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feelings of early and unexpected prosperity.
Was that his work or was it possibly the doing of someone who was bent upon counteracting his schemes?
She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
Elizabeth, who had a letter to write, went into the breakfast-room for that purpose soon after tea; for as the others were all going to sit down to cards, she could not be wanted to counteract her mother’s schemes.
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