countermine
noun
Meaning
- A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
- An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
- A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
- To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
- To sap hostile mining.
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