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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342",
"text": "It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves with blocks of iron heated in the furnace.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate."
],
"links": [
[
"act",
"act"
],
[
"opposition",
"opposition"
],
[
"thwart",
"thwart"
],
[
"frustrate",
"frustrate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkaʊntəɹˌækt/",
"tags": [
"noun"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌkaʊntəɹˈækt/",
"tags": [
"verb"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ækt"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "counteract"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "countervail"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "counterwork"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:counteract",
"word": "remedy"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"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": "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",
"word": "противоде́йствовать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "protivostojatʹ",
"sense": "to act in opposition to",
"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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