English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd English counter-attack
From counter- + attack.
Pronunciation
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Noun
counter-attack (plural counter-attacks)
- An attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:Liverpool should really have taken the lead on 33 minutes. A lightning quick counter-attack was led by Jordan Henderson down the right.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
- Albanian: kundërsulm (sq) m
- Arabic: هُجُوم مُضَادّ m (hujūm muḍādd)
- Armenian: հակահարձակում (hy) (hakaharjakum), հակագրոհ (hy) (hakagroh)
- Azerbaijani: əks-hücum
- Belarusian: контрата́ка f (kontratáka), контрнаступле́нне n (kontrnastupljénnje)
- Bulgarian: контраата́ка (bg) f (kontraatáka)
- Catalan: contraatac m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 反擊 / 反击 (zh) (fǎnjī), 逆襲 / 逆袭 (zh) (nìxí)
- Czech: protiútok (cs) m
- Danish: modangreb n
- Dutch: tegenaanval (nl) m
- Estonian: vasturünnak
- Finnish: vastahyökkäys
- French: contre-attaque (fr) f, contre-offensive (fr) f, contrattaque (fr) f, controffensive (fr) f
- Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva), კონტრიერიში (ḳonṭrieriši)
- German: Gegenangriff (de) m
- Greek: αντεπίθεση (el) f (antepíthesi)
- Hebrew: התקפת נגד f (hatkafát néged)
- Hungarian: ellentámadás (hu)
- Icelandic: gagnárás f
- Irish: frithionsaí m
- Italian: contrattacco (it)
- Japanese: 反撃 (ja) (はんげき, hangeki), 逆襲 (ja) (ぎゃくしゅう, gyakushū)
- Kazakh: қарсы шабуыл (qarsy şabuyl)
- Korean: 역습(逆襲) (ko) (yeokseup), 반격(反擊) (ko) (ban'gyeok)
- Kyrgyz: каршы чабуул (karşı cabuul)
- Latvian: pretuzbrukums m
- Lithuanian: kontrataka f
- Macedonian: противна́пад m (protivnápad)
- Māori: taupaepae, whana whakairi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: motangrep n
- Nynorsk: motangrep n, motåtak n
- Persian: پاتَک (fa) (pâtak), ضِدِّحَمْله (fa) (zedd-e-hamle)
- Polish: kontratak (pl) m, kontra (pl) f
- Portuguese: contra-ataque (pt) m
- Romanian: contraatac (ro) n, contra-atac n
- Russian: контрата́ка (ru) f (kontratáka), контрнаступле́ние (ru) n (kontrnastuplénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: противна́пад m (Bosnian, Serbian), протуна́пад m (Croatian)
- Latin: protivnápad m (Bosnian, Serbian), protunápad (sh) m (Croatian)
- Slovak: protiútok m
- Slovene: protinapad m
- Spanish: contraataque (es) m
- Swahili: kaunta (sw)
- Swedish: motanfall (sv) n, motangrepp (sv) n, motattack (sv) c, kontring (sv) c (sports)
- Tajik: ҳамлаи ҷавобӣ (hamla-yi javobi), ҳуҷуми ҷавобӣ (hujum-i javobi)
- Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན (rgol lan)
- Turkish: karşı atak, karşı saldırı (tr), kontratak (tr)
- Turkmen: garşy hüjüm
- Ukrainian: контрата́ка f (kontratáka), контрна́ступ m (kontrnástup)
- Uyghur: قايتۇرما ھۇجۇم (qayturma hujum)
- Uzbek: kontrataka (uz), qarshi hujum
- Vietnamese: phản công (vi)
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Verb
counter-attack (third-person singular simple present counter-attacks, present participle counter-attacking, simple past and past participle counter-attacked)
- 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.
Translations
to attack in response to an attack by opponents
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