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• verb 1 speak or act in opposition or response to. 2 Boxing give a return blow while parrying. • adverb (counter to) in the opposite direction to or in conflict with. • adjective responding to something of the same kind, especially in opposition: argument and counter argument. • noun an act or speech which counters something else. — ORIGIN from Latin contra ‘against’.
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