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say it: KOWN-tur-chahrj
countercharge is a noun meaning "a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser". It is pronounced /ˈkaʊntɚˌtʃɑɹdʒ/ — KOWN-tur-chahrj. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser
a retaliatory charge
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for countercharge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.