Counteract
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
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Counteract Quotations
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
James Madison
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin
The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
Kelly Miller
The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened.
Lawrence Hargrave
Counteract Translations
counteract in German is zuwiderhandeln, entgegenwirken, entgegenarbeiten
counteract in Norwegian is motvirke
counteract in Spanish is neutralizar
counteract in Swedish is motverka
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