countermine

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.

   • Normally the threat would have been dealt with by means of a counter-mine, but the tunnel was now far too close for that.
2. 2

   An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

3. 3

   A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.

   • Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
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   1. 4

      To plot opposition

      To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.

      • […] every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.
   2. 5

      to sap hostile mining.

      • […]so Fritz could sleep easily in his trench, so far as mines were concerned; and Fritz, confident in his Herr Professors, altogether neglected any attempt to counter-mine.

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