Word family noun attack counterattack attacker adjective attacking counterattacking verb attack counterattack
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcounterattackcoun‧ter‧at‧tack /ˈkaʊntərəˌtæk/ noun [countable] ATTACKan attack you make against someone who has attacked you, in a war, sport, or argument —counterattack verb [intransitive, transitive]Examples from the Corpus
counterattack• But this week, the president embarked on a counterattack, using one of the guerrillas' favorite weapons: the media.• This will spark rounds of attack and counterattack ads.• Soft money helped pay for the contract and its follow-through, just as it helped finance the Democratic counterattack.• His father's famous counterattack in the Daily Mirror sounds like the machine-gun rattle of an old-fashioned typewriter.• Chavez unleashed a furious counterattack on his attacker.• And Lisbie knew Fiona wasn't going to let this one pass without a major counterattack.• Scattered in pursuit, they provided perfect weak points for our counterattack.• You turn away from the onslaught and, in so doing, remove all possibility of a strong, scoring counterattack.• But I still have to applaud this counterattack against tobacco's smoky glamour. 