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counter-offensive

adj · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

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Meaning relationships

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noun

Meaning 2

An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From counter- + offensive.

Across languages

Translations

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: kundërsulm — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Arabic: هُجُوم مُضَادّ (hujūm muḍādd) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Armenian: հակահարձակում (hakaharjakum) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Azerbaijani: əks-hücum — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Belarusian: контрнаступле́нне (kontrnastupljénnje) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Bulgarian: контранастъпле́ние (kontranastǎplénie) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Chinese Cantonese: 反攻 (faan2 gung1) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Chinese Mandarin: 反攻 (fǎngōng) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Czech: protiofenzíva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Danish: modoffensiv — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Dutch: tegenoffensief — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Esperanto: kontraŭofensivo — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Esperanto: kontraŭatako — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Estonian: vastupealetung — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Finnish: vastahyökkäys — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • French: contre-offensive — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • German: Gegenoffensive — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Greek: αντεπίθεση (antepíthesi) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Hindi: जवाबी हमला (javābī hamlā) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Hindi: प्रत्याक्रमण (pratyākramaṇ) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Hungarian: ellentámadás — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Icelandic: gagnsókn — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Italian: controffensiva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Japanese: 反攻 (hankō) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Kazakh: қарсы шабуыл (qarsy şabuyl) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Korean: 반공 (ban'gong) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Korean: 반공격 (ban'gonggyeok) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Kyrgyz: каршы чабуул (karşı cabuul) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Latvian: pretuzbrukums — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Lithuanian: kontrpuolimas — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Macedonian: контраофанзи́ва (kontraofanzíva) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Macedonian: противофанзи́ва (protivofanzíva) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Norwegian Bokmål: motoffensiv — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Persian: ضدحمله (zedd-e-hamle) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Polish: kontrofensywa — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Polish: kontrnatarcie — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Portuguese: contraofensiva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Romanian: contraofensivă — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Russian: контрнаступле́ние (kontrnastuplénije) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Serbo-Croatian: контраофанзива — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Serbo-Croatian: противофанзива — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Serbo-Croatian: протофензива — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Serbo-Croatian: kontraofanziva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Serbo-Croatian: protivofanziva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Serbo-Croatian: protofenziva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Slovak: protiofenzíva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Slovene: protiofenziva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Spanish: contraofensiva — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Swedish: motoffensiv — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Tajik: ҳуҷуми ҷавобӣ (hujum-i javobi) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Tajik: ҳамлаи ҷавобӣ (hamla-yi javobi) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Tajik: зидди ҳамла (zidd-i hamla) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན (rgol lan) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Tibetan: ཕར་རྒོལ་དམག་འཐབ (phar rgol dmag 'thab) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན་གྱི་དམག་འཐབ (rgol lan gyi dmag 'thab) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Turkish: karşı saldırı — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Ukrainian: контрна́ступ (kontrnástup) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Urdu: جَوابی حَمْلَہ (javābī hamlā) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Uyghur: قايتۇرما ھۇجۇم (qayturma hujum) — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Uzbek: qarshi hujum — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Vietnamese: phản công — attack made in response to a previous offensive
  • Vietnamese: sự phản công — attack made in response to a previous offensive
Real reading context

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