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synonyms for counter-action
- action
- hostility
- resistance
- struggle
- antinomy
- antithesis
- aversion
- brush
- clash
- combat
- competition
- con
- conflict
- contention
- contest
- contradistinction
- contrariety
- counteraction
- counterattack
- defense
- defiance
- disapproval
- duel
- encounter
- engagement
- fray
- grapple
- negativism
- prevention
- repugnance
- repulsion
- rivalry
- skirmish
- strife
- unfriendliness
- violation
- war
- warfare
- civil disobedience
- confronting
- contraposition
- obstructiveness
- opposure
- oppugnancy
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How to use counter-action in a sentence
The walls were green, the furniture green—everything ordered in counter-action of light and heat.
The Hour and the Man | Harriet MartineauThen there was a counter-action, a horrible breaking down of something inside him, a whole agony of reaction.
The Prussian Officer | D. H. LawrenceI refer to the mechanical counter-action of a sluggish circulation, through the agency of prolonged muscular contraction.
The Electric Bath | George M. Schweig
Whether this counter-action is to follow upon the enthusiasm that greets the great Guest, we dare not say.
If the identity expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
Essays, Second Series | Ralph Waldo Emerson
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