Usually means: Quick defensive response to attack.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterattacking: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterattacking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. counterattacking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Counterattacking, counterattacking: Wordnik
  5. counterattacking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. counterattacking: Wiktionary
  7. counterattacking: Dictionary.com
  8. counterattacking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. counterattacking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterattacking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterattacking: Encyclopedia

(Note: See counterattack as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Counterattack)

noun:  Alternative form of counter-attack [An attack made in response to an attack by the opponents]
verb:  Alternative form of counter-attack [To attack in response to an attack by opponents.]
▸ Also see counterattack


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