Usually means: Response to an attack, defensively.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. counterattack: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterattack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterattack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterattack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterattack: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterattack, counterattack: Wordnik
  7. counterattack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. counterattack: Wiktionary
  9. counterattack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counterattack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counterattack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. counterattack: Dictionary.com
  13. counterattack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Counterattack (newsletter), Counterattack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. counterattack: Rhymezone
  16. counterattack: FreeDictionary.org
  17. counterattack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. counterattack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. counterattack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. counterattack: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. counterattack: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Counterattack: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See counterattacked as well.)

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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.]

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