"countercommand" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "counter- + command",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1933, Collier's Illustrated Weekly, volume 91, page 16",
          "text": "Someone else had given a countercommand — the Spanish soldiers were in riotous retreat! Don Carlos was engulfed by the screaming swirl of the Moorish horsemen.",
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        "A command that cancels or reverses a previous command; a countermand."
      ],
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          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "reverse",
          "reverse"
        ],
        [
          "countermand",
          "countermand"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "countercommand"
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  "etymology_text": "counter- + command",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "countercommanding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countercommanded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "countercommanded",
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        "past"
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      "glosses": [
        "To countermand (a previous command)."
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        "(transitive) To countermand (a previous command)."
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        "transitive"
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      "glosses": [
        "To countermand (a person or group)."
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        [
          "countermand",
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        "(transitive) To countermand (a person or group)."
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  "word": "countercommand"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "counter- + command",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "countercommands",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  ],
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        }
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        "A command that cancels or reverses a previous command; a countermand."
      ],
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          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
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          "reverse",
          "reverse"
        ],
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          "countermand",
          "countermand"
        ]
      ]
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "countercommanded",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "countercommanded",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
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        "To countermand (a previous command)."
      ],
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        [
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        "(transitive) To countermand (a previous command)."
      ],
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        "To countermand (a person or group)."
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        [
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        "(transitive) To countermand (a person or group)."
      ],
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}