Dictionary Entry
countermine
countermine is a 11-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
- 2noun
A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
- 3transitive verb
To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
- 4transitive verb
To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
- 5intransitive verb
To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
- 6noun
(military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy
- 7verb
destroy enemy mines with one's own mines
"We countermined the banks of the river"
- 8verb
destroy property or hinder normal operations
"The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
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