English
Etymology
From counter- + attack.
Noun
counter-attack (plural counter-attacks)
- An attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:Liverpool should really have taken the lead on 33 minutes. A lightning quick counter-attack was led by Jordan Henderson down the right.
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Translations
an attack made in response to an attack by the opponents
- Armenian: հակահարձակում (hy) (hakaharjakum)
- Bulgarian: контраатака (bg) (kontraataka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 反擊／反击 (zh) (fǎnjī), 反击 (zh) (fǎnjī), 逆襲／逆袭 (zh) (nìxí), 逆袭 (zh) (nìxí)
- Dutch: tegenaanval (nl) m
- Finnish: vastahyökkäys
- French: contre-attaque (fr) f, contre-offensive (fr) f, contrattaque (fr) f, controffensive (fr) f
- Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva), კონტრიერიში (ḳonṭrieriši)
- German: Gegenangriff (de) m
- Greek: αντεπίθεση (el) f (antepíthesi)
- Hebrew: התקפת נגד f (hatqafat neged)
- Hungarian: ellentámadás (hu)
- Irish: frithionsaí m
- Italian: contrattacco (it)
- Japanese: 反撃 (ja) (hangeki), 逆襲 (gyakushū)
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- Macedonian: противнапад m (protivnapad)
- Maori: taupaepae, whana whakairi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: motangrep n
- Nynorsk: motangrep n
- Polish: kontratak (pl) m
- Portuguese: contra-ataque m
- Romanian: contraatac (ro), contra-atac
- Russian: контрата́ка (ru) f (kontratáka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: противна́пад m (Bosnian, Serbian), протуна́пад m (Croatian)
- Roman: protivnápad m (Bosnian, Serbian), protunápad (sh) m (Croatian)
- Spanish: contraataque (es) m
- Swedish: motanfall n, motangrepp n, motattack c, kontring (sv) c (sports)
- Ukrainian: контратака (kontrataka)
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Verb
counter-attack (third-person singular simple present counter-attacks, present participle counter-attacking, simple past and past participle counter-attacked)
- To attack in response to an attack by opponents
Translations
attack in response to an attack by opponents
