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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abri, angle, approach trench, brew, bunker, cabal, collude, communication trench, complot, concoct, connive, conspire, cook up, counterplot, coupure, ditch, double sap, dugout, engineer, entrenchment, finagle, finesse, fire trench, flying sap, fortified tunnel, fosse, foxhole, frame, frame up, gallery, hatch, hatch a plot, hatch up, intrigue, lay a plot, machinate, maneuver, mine, moat, operate, parallel, plot, rig, sap, scheme, slit trench, trench, tunnel, wangle
Dictionary Results for countermine:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
countermine
    n 1: (military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the
         enemy
    v 1: destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The
         Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
         [syn: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract,
         subvert, weaken]
    2: destroy enemy mines with one's own mines; "We countermined
       the banks of the river"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Countermine \Coun"ter*mine`\ (koun"t[~e]r*m[imac]n`), n.
   [Counter- + mine underground gallery: cf. F. contermine.]
   1. (Mil.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and
      destroy the mining of an enemy.
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   2. A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project
      is defeated.
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            Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine
            against contempt but terror.          --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Countermine \Coun`ter*mine"\ (koun`t[~e]r*m[imac]n"), v. t. [Cf.
   F. contreminer.] [imp. & p. p. Countermined; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Countermining.]
   1. (Mil.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept
      with a countermine.
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   2. To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Countermine \Coun`ter*mine"\, v. i.
   To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
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         'Tis hard for man to countermine with God. --Chapman.
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