Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An opposing blast, literally or figuratively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a vigorous and unrestrained verbal response.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
work that stronglyrefutes orcriticises another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vigorous and unrestrained response
Etymologies
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Examples
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And so blogging found its own answer to the defensive counterblast from the journalistic establishment.
Why I Blog 2008
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And so blogging found its own answer to the defensive counterblast from the journalistic establishment.
Why I Blog 2008
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The beard would have been a kind of counterblast to the Rhodes hat.
Tremendous Trifles 1905
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You don't hear much these days about moral growth - certainly not in our frenetic, pre-election fever of accusation and counterblast.
Nigel Hamilton: From Rage to Civilization Nigel Hamilton 2010
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It was feminism, it was the humorless temper of the times — and from his home in the great state of Montana, the old trouper issued a counterblast.
Lost In Space 2009
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It was entirely right that in reaction to the letter from 105 Tory MPs attacking the wind farms he should seek to organise a counterblast.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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Chavs, despite its provocative title, is a lively, well-reasoned and informative counterblast to the notion that Britain is now more or less a classless society.
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones – review 2011
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You don't hear much these days about moral growth - certainly not in our frenetic, pre-election fever of accusation and counterblast.
Nigel Hamilton: From Rage to Civilization Nigel Hamilton 2010
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You don't hear much these days about moral growth - certainly not in our frenetic, pre-election fever of accusation and counterblast.
Nigel Hamilton: From Rage to Civilization Nigel Hamilton 2010
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It was feminism, it was the humorless temper of the times — and from his home in the great state of Montana, the old trouper issued a counterblast.
Lost In Space 2009
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