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counter- + attack

Singular
counterattack

Plural
counterattacks

  1. A counterattack is an attack made in response to another attack.

Plain form
counterattack

Third-person singular
counterattacks

Past tense
counterattacked

Past participle
counterattacked

Present participle
counterattacking

  1. (transitive) If you counterattack a person, you attack them after they attack you.