countermove

1. 1.

   an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.

   Synonymscounterattack

   Broaderattack

   Narrowerriposte

Other forms of countermove

plural

countermoves·

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.

Questions about countermove

What does countermove mean?

countermove means "an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.".

How many syllables are in countermove?

countermove has 3 syllables: coun-ter-move. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊntɚˌmuv/.

What is another word for countermove?

Close synonyms include counterattack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is countermove a common word?

countermove is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with countermove?

2 words rhyme with countermove. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.