counter-attack

Language

See also: counterattack

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counter-attack

Alternative forms

counterattack

Etymology

From counter- +‎ attackCategory:English terms prefixed with counter-#ATTACK.

Pronunciation

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Noun

counter-attack (plural counter-attacks)Category:English lemmas#COUNTERATTACK Category:English nouns#COUNTERATTACK Category:English countable nouns#COUNTERATTACK Category:English multiword terms#COUNTERATTACK Category:English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTERATTACK Category:Pages with entries#COUNTER-ATTACK Category:Pages with 1 entry#COUNTER-ATTACK

An attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
- 2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:
  Liverpool should really have taken the lead on 33 minutes. A lightning quick counter-attack was led by Jordan Henderson down the right.
  Category:English terms with quotations#COUNTERATTACK

Synonyms

counter-offensive

Antonyms

counter-time

Translations

an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents

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Albanian: kundërsulm (sq) mCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Arabic: هُجُوم مُضَادّ m (hujūm muḍādd)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#COUNTERATTACK
Armenian: հակահարձակում (hy) (hakaharjakum)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#COUNTERATTACK, հակագրոհ (hy) (hakagroh)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Azerbaijani: əks-hücumCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#COUNTERATTACK
Belarusian: контрата́ка f (kontratáka)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#COUNTERATTACK, контрнаступле́нне n (kontrnastupljénnje)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Bulgarian: контраата́ка (bg) f (kontraatáka)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Catalan: contraatac mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#COUNTERATTACK
Chinese:
Mandarin: 反擊 / 反击 (zh) (fǎnjī)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#COUNTERATTACK, 逆襲 / 逆袭 (zh) (nìxí)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#COUNTERATTACK
Czech: protiútok (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#COUNTERATTACK
Danish: modangreb nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#COUNTERATTACK
Dutch: tegenaanval (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#COUNTERATTACK
Estonian: vasturünnakCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Finnish: vastahyökkäysCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#COUNTERATTACK
French: contre-attaque (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#COUNTERATTACK, contre-offensive (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#COUNTERATTACK, contrattaque (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#COUNTERATTACK, controffensive (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#COUNTERATTACK
Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#COUNTERATTACK, კონტრიერიში (ḳonṭrieriši)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#COUNTERATTACK
German: Gegenangriff (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#COUNTERATTACK
Greek: αντεπίθεση (el) f (antepíthesi)Category:Terms with Greek translations#COUNTERATTACK
Hebrew: התקפת נגד f (hatkafát néged)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#COUNTERATTACK
Hungarian: ellentámadás (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Icelandic: gagnárás fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#COUNTERATTACK
Irish: frithionsaí mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#COUNTERATTACK
Italian: contrattacco (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Japanese: 反撃 (ja) (はんげき, hangeki)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#COUNTERATTACK, 逆襲 (ja) (ぎゃくしゅう, gyakushū)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#COUNTERATTACK
Kazakh: қарсы шабуыл (qarsy şabuyl)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#COUNTERATTACK
Korean: 역습(逆襲) (ko) (yeokseup)Category:Terms with Korean translations#COUNTERATTACK, 반격(反擊) (ko) (ban'gyeok)Category:Terms with Korean translations#COUNTERATTACK
Kyrgyz: каршы чабуул (karşı cabuul)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#COUNTERATTACK
Latvian: pretuzbrukums mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Lithuanian: kontrataka fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Macedonian: противна́пад m (protivnápad)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Māori: taupaepaeCategory:Terms with Māori translations#COUNTERATTACK, whana whakairiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#COUNTERATTACK
Norwegian:
Bokmål: motangrep nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#COUNTERATTACK

Nynorsk: motangrep nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#COUNTERATTACK, motåtak nCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#COUNTERATTACK
Persian: پاتَک (fa) (pâtak)Category:Terms with Persian translations#COUNTERATTACK, ضِدِّحَمْله (fa) (zedd-e-hamle)Category:Terms with Persian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Polish: kontratak (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#COUNTERATTACK
Portuguese: contra-ataque (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#COUNTERATTACK
Romanian: contraatac (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#COUNTERATTACK, contra-atac nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Russian: контрата́ка (ru) f (kontratáka)Category:Terms with Russian translations#COUNTERATTACK, контрнаступле́ние (ru) n (kontrnastuplénije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: противна́пад mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COUNTERATTACK (Bosnian, Serbian), протуна́пад mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COUNTERATTACK (Croatian)

Latin: protivnápad mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COUNTERATTACK (Bosnian, Serbian), protunápad (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#COUNTERATTACK (Croatian)
Slovak: protiútok mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#COUNTERATTACK
Slovene: protinapad mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#COUNTERATTACK
Spanish: contraataque (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#COUNTERATTACK
Swahili: kaunta (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#COUNTERATTACK
Swedish: motanfall (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#COUNTERATTACK, motangrepp (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#COUNTERATTACK, motattack (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#COUNTERATTACK, kontring (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#COUNTERATTACK (sports)
Tajik: ҳамлаи ҷавобӣ (hamla-yi javobi)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#COUNTERATTACK, ҳуҷуми ҷавобӣ (hujum-i javobi)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#COUNTERATTACK
Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན (rgol lan)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#COUNTERATTACK
Turkish: karşı atakCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#COUNTERATTACK, karşı saldırı (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#COUNTERATTACK, kontratak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#COUNTERATTACK
Turkmen: garşy hüjümCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#COUNTERATTACK
Ukrainian: контрата́ка f (kontratáka)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#COUNTERATTACK, контрна́ступ m (kontrnástup)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Uyghur: قايتۇرما ھۇجۇم (qayturma hujum)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#COUNTERATTACK
Uzbek: kontrataka (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#COUNTERATTACK, qarshi hujumCategory:Terms with Uzbek translations#COUNTERATTACK
Vietnamese: phản công (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#COUNTERATTACK

Verb

counter-attack (third-person singular simple present counter-attacks, present participle counter-attacking, simple past and past participle counter-attacked)Category:English lemmas#COUNTERATTACK Category:English verbs#COUNTERATTACK Category:English multiword terms#COUNTERATTACK Category:English entries with incorrect language header#COUNTERATTACK Category:Pages with entries#COUNTER-ATTACK Category:Pages with 1 entry#COUNTER-ATTACK

To attack in response to an attack by opponents.
- 1959 September, “Talking of Trains: Attack and counter-attack”, in Trains Illustrated, page 405:
  Taking a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, the New Haven counter-attacked with vigour.
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Translations

to attack in response to an attack by opponents

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Armenian: հակահարձակվել (hy) (hakaharjakvel)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#COUNTERATTACK, հակագրոհել (hy) (hakagrohel)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Bulgarian: контраатакувам (kontraatakuvam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Catalan: contraatacar (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#COUNTERATTACK
Chinese:
Mandarin: 反擊 / 反击 (zh) (fǎnjī, fǎnjí)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#COUNTER-ATTACK Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#COUNTERATTACK
Finnish: tehdä vastahyökkäysCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#COUNTERATTACK
French: contre-attaquer (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#COUNTERATTACK, contrattaquer (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#COUNTERATTACK
Greek: αντεπιτίθεμαι (el) (antepitíthemai)Category:Terms with Greek translations#COUNTERATTACK
Hungarian: ellentámadást indítCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Irish: frithionsaighCategory:Terms with Irish translations#COUNTERATTACK
Italian: contrattaccare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Portuguese: contra-atacarCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#COUNTERATTACK
Russian: контратакова́ть (ru) impf or pf (kontratakovátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#COUNTERATTACK
Spanish: contraatacar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#COUNTERATTACK
Swedish: gå till motanfall/motangrepp/motattackCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#COUNTERATTACK, kontra (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#COUNTERATTACK (sports)
Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན་སློག (rgol lan slog)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#COUNTERATTACK, རྒོལ་ལན་སྤྲོད (rgol lan sprod)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#COUNTERATTACK

References

“counter-attack”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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