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"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
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"word": "balance out"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "cancel out"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "neutralise"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "nullify"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "detoxicate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "countercharm"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "counterspell"
},
{
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"word": "countercheck"
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{
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"word": "countervote"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "fight"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "override"
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"ref": "1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life:",
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{
"text": "1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica - Dome\nIn India, in the “great mosque” of Jama Masjid (a.d. 1560) and the Gol Gumbaz, or tomb of Mahommed Adil Shah (a.d. 1630) at Bijapur, the domes are carried on pendentives consisting of arches crossing one another and projecting inwards, and their weight counteracts any thrust there may be in the dome."
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"ref": "1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:",
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"text": "2016, Margaret Corvid writing in the New Statesman, Five practical things you can do to fight Donald Trump if you live in the UK\nWhen people hear my American accent, they want to talk to me about Donald Trump. They want to ask me what happened, and why. But most of all, they ask me – with fear filling their voices – what they can do, as individuals, to counteract him, here, from the United Kingdom."
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"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "countervail"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "counterwork"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "remedy"
}
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to have a contrary or opposing effect on someone or something",
"word": "motvirke"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "protivodejstvam",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "противодействам"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "tegengaan"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "kontraŭagi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "vastustaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "entgegenwirken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "bekämpfen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "antenergó",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "αντενεργώ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "antidró",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "αντιδρώ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "antiprátto",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "αντιπράττω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "antiprássō",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "ἀντιπράσσω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "ellensúlyoz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "contrastare"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ಮಲೆ"
},
{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "māru",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "ಮಾರು"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "motvirke"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "motarbeide"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "przeciwdziałać"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "protivodéjstvovatʹ",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "противоде́йствовать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "protivostojatʹ",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "противостоять"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"word": "motverka"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "protydíjaty",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "протиді́яти"
}
],
"word": "counteract"
}
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