Coun"ter*mine` (koun"t?r-m?n`), n. [Counter- + mine underground gallery: cf. F. contermine.]
1. Mil.
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
2.
A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
Sir P. Sidney.
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Coun`ter*mine" (koun`t?r-m?n"), v. t. [Cf. F. contreminer.] [imp. & p. p. Countermined; p. pr. & vb. n. Countermining.]
1. Mil.
To oppose by means or a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
2.
To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
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Coun`ter*mine", v. i.
To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
'Tis hard for man to countermine with God.
Chapman.
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