countermeet
verbEtymology
From counter- + meet.
- inherited from *mōtijaną✻
- inherited from *mōtijan✻
- inherited from mētan
- inherited from meten
Definitions
To meet (something) in response to a thing
To meet (something) in response to a thing; to counter.
- I admire the question by which you have countermet and rebuked my own.
- Yes; and rent, and payments, clothing, food ; how much to plant of this or that, and where; how preserve the soil fertility, check erosion by the sudden rains, rotate the crops to best advantage, countermeet this loss or that.
- From the point of view of the Cola ruler , this alliance must have been to coordinate action to countermeet the rivalry offered by the rulers of Bengal and the Sailendras of Sumatra.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA