Usually means: Response to enemy's firing positions.
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  1. counterfire: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterfire: Collins English Dictionary
  3. counterfire: Vocabulary.com
  4. counterfire: Wordnik
  5. counterfire: Wiktionary
  6. counterfire: Dictionary.com
  7. Counterfire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. counterfire: Rhymezone
  9. counterfire: FreeDictionary.org
  10. counterfire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. counterfire: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. counterfire: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (counterfire)

noun:  (military, uncountable) The firing of weapons in response.
noun:  (firefighting, countable) A smaller fire lit at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.
verb:  (firefighting, intransitive) To light a smaller fire at some distance from a wildfire, in order to develop a firebreak.

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