"counterblast" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From counter- + blast.",
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      "form": "counterblasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1950 August, “Main-Line Trains at Broad Street”, in Railway Magazine, page 505:",
          "text": "This four-coach train, which included a restaurant car and typewriting facilities, ran between Broad Street [London], Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and was put on in February, 1910, as a counterblast to the improved service to Birmingham which the G.W.R. was to introduce with the opening of the shortened route via Bicester.",
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        "A work that strongly refutes or criticises another."
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          "refute",
          "refute"
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        [
          "criticise",
          "criticise"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "counterblast"
}

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        "2": "counter",
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      },
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From counter- + blast.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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