counter-offensive

Speech parts

1. counter-offensive - Noun

2. counter-offensive - Adjective

Meaning

counter-offensive (plural counter-offensives)

An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

counter-offensive (comparative more counter-offensive, superlative most counter-offensive)

Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

Alternative names

counter offensive

Synonyms

Examples

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. Jacques Delors

The enemy is quite successful in mobilizing and launching a counter-offensive. Igor Girkin

And if he decides to go for broke with an all-out counter-offensive, he will have no shortage of attack dogs. Source: Internet

By being forced into a counter-offensive against such formidable positions, the French Army would "bleed itself white". Source: Internet

'Operation Ceniza' In response to the guerilla offensive in early 1981, the Guatemalan Army began mobilizing for a large-scale rural counter-offensive. Source: Internet

Falkenhayn had already given up the plan for a counter-offensive near Arras, to reinforce the Russian front and the 2nd Army, with eighteen divisions moved from the reserve and the 6th Army front. Source: Internet

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