contrecarrer

Quant à l'avenir d'internet en général, je pense que ce médium va se populariser, tout en étant en prise avec le développement d'un réseau commercial qui va contrecarrer l'esprit convivial du début.

Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

Sometimes, when there was really a lover in the question, the _cavalier servente_ must have been a serious impediment; he was always _Là planté ... à contrecarrer un pauvre tiers_, in the words of the witty Président de Brosses, who, though he did not wholly credit the assurances he received as to the invariable innocence of the institution, was yet far from passing on it the sweeping judgment arrived at by most foreigners.

Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901