countermined

I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined.

Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune 2010

We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization.

Chapter 16: The End 2010

He prepares a stratagem but finds himself countermined — proceeds on his journey, and is overtaken by a terrible tempest.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

He prepares a stratagem but finds himself countermined — proceeds on his journey, and is overtaken by a terrible tempest.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

Engineers were ever on the watch, and countermined so successfully that they were able to frustrate the enemy's designs on almost every occasion.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The enemy had countermined, but did not succeed in reaching our mine.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Sedition has, at last, countermined itself, and conspiracy we have seen in effect perishing by its own excesses.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

No more than forty mines, however, were sprung during the whole siege, and their effect, from the industry with which they were countermined by the garrison, was far less destructive than at

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

At any rate, my omelette, cheese, toast and coffee tasted very good to me that day, while I chatted to two engineers who had countermined and blown up a German mine at St. Eloi a few days before.

On the Fringe of the Great Fight 1921

For months this ridge had been mined and countermined by both sides, until the English had placed

With Our Soldiers in France Sherwood Eddy 1917