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counteract English

Meaning counteract meaning

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counteract Verb

— If something counteracts the effects of something else, it acts against those effects. Alcohol will counteract the effects of learning.

counteract

— verb (= antagonize) act in opposition to — verb oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues — verb (= countercheck) oppose or check by a counteraction — verb (= sabotage) destroy property or hinder normal operations The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war

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counteract English » English

neutralize weaken undermine subvert oppose countermine sabotage contravene react countervail antagonize withstand resist prevent obstruct object impede forestall countercheck counterbalance correct block antagonise work against violate thwart take steps against stop shield shelter secure sap safeguard retaliate repair remove remedy rebel put up protect offset nullify neutralization neutralise negate mollify kill kick against inhibit host

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counteract · verb

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I will calculate the spectrum dust in the calcinator death ray, to counteract this antibiotic. And you will all be destroyed.
And Ro-man won't find it easy to counteract the serum, so we have still a little time left.
I'm confident that I can counteract it with more power, yes.
We shall have to go and find the trouble of this interference and then learn how to counteract it.
He was creating a form of living matter to counteract the cancer.
Who wants to counteract paradise, Jim boy?
How to counteract the effect of the spores.
Her nervous system actually connected to yours to counteract the worst of your symptoms.
Acting in concert with our United Nations allies, we are engaged in a police action to counteract a bandit raid into South Korea by North Korean Communists.
He would counteract my advantage.
So we gotta send up our laser satellites to counteract theirs.
If I can get electric current through his system, it'll break the magnetic field and counteract the clotting.
To counteract the deficiencies of your own character.
The ventilation system has started pumping hyronalin into our air supply to counteract the effects.
And we agreed that you can only counteract rebellion with utmost strictness and severity!
Ooph! These tablets will counteract the somnolent effect of the mixture and give you energy.
Who wants to counteract paradise, Jim boy? McCoy out.
To counteract heavy pressure from their country's young people, Premier Anton Rojek and his special adviser, Josef Czerny, have summoned a special congress of the government-controlled youth organisation.
I opened your flat, broke her neck. to counteract the power she had over me.
Well to slow down the blood loss, to counteract pain and shock.
Radiological treatment to try to counteract the gamma rays.
Acting in concert with our United Nations allies, we are engaged in a police action to counteract. a bandit raid into South Korea by North Korean Communists.
The lighter the load, the better. And hopefully a headwind to counteract the front-end weight.
Can you run tests, blood samples, anything at all to give us a lead on what these things are, how to counteract them?
I don't know how to get my crew back, how to counteract the effect of the spores.
They can counteract small meteorites.
No, I don't. To counteract the deficiencies of your own character.
Commander La Forge has begun work on a plan that would counteract the devastation.
Unless I find some way to counteract the virus he'll be dead in twelve hours.
We've tried everything, but we can't counteract the telepathic damage.
Counteract its adversarial nature.

News and current affairs

To identify, prevent, and counteract the causes and consequences of work-related stress, we need to monitor job content, working conditions, terms of employment, social relations at work, health, well-being and productivity.
We must find ways to counteract this because a system that does not offer hope and opportunity to its losers is liable to be disrupted by acts of desperation.
Indeed, to counteract the mindset forged in the recent financial crisis, spending measures will need to be longer-lasting if they are to raise expectations of future growth and thus stimulate current investment and hiring.
Minimum-wage increases, for example, counteract income-tax credits and lower payroll taxes aimed at encouraging youth employment.
Italy has tried to counteract the economic contraction by increasing its public debt.
Third, governments must counteract the sharp drop in consumption and investment demand.
And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.
Eyebrows were raised and questions were asked about the lengths to which Mahathir would go to counteract the Islamist appeal.
A double round of stimulus packages is needed to counteract the real prospect of a double-dip recession.
But the government could have engaged in more aggressive fiscal stimulus to counteract the hike's short-term effects.
Investing fund surpluses in foreign securities would counteract the tendency for the exchange rate to rise.
Such a force is needed to continue pursuing al-Qaeda, and to counteract pro-Iranian activities.
Governments must also identify radical tendencies within Europe's Muslim communities and devise strategies to counteract them.
So far, he has done nothing to counteract the legal nihilism against which he himself has spoken.
Unfortunately, the authorities do not have much margin for error in working to counteract the damage done by the international crisis.
Large increases in public and private expenditures will therefore be required in many regions of the world to counteract falling demand.
At an OPEC meeting in the run-up to the election, the group's dominant producer, Saudi Arabia, shelved plans to restrict oil production to counteract the rapid decline in world prices, allowing them to continue to fall.
Still, this new trial of course is also a test case for Medvedev's presidency. So far, he has done nothing to counteract the legal nihilism against which he himself has spoken.
Multiculturalism in Britain has entrenched almost self-contained Muslim communities and turned Islam into a badge of identity to counteract exclusion.
For all the theorizing of Plato and Marx, the family seems to prevail unless other social institutions counteract or supersede it.
While the rest of the world recognizes that the way to counteract the collapse of credit is to expand the monetary base, Germany remains opposed to any policy that might carry the seeds of eventual inflation.

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