counterblast

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noun

A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.

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Meanings

nouncounterblast (plural counterblasts)

plural counterblasts

  1. A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.
    1 more example

    This four-coach train, which included a restaurant car and typewriting facilities, ran between Broad Street [London], Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and was put on in February, 1910, as a counterblast to the improved service to Birmingham which the G.W.R. was to introduce with the opening of the shortened route via Bicester.

    1950 August, “Main-Line Trains at Broad Street”, in Railway Magazine, page 505

Origin

From counter- + blast.

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APA

counterblast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterblast

MLA

“counterblast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterblast. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterblast,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterblast.

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