counterstroke

Definitions

noun A stroke or blow given in return for one received; a return stroke or blow.
noun A force which produces a lesion in a part other than that where the injury is inflicted. See counter-fissure.

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And I don't like the argument that the counterstroke is our fault.

CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2009 2009
And I don't like the argument that the counterstroke is our fault.

CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2009 2009
Blowing up the Saudi ambassador in Washington would be an appealing counterstroke against the two foreign forces that Khamenei detests most.

Iran's Act of War Reuel Marc Gerecht 2011
Even the government had to admit, it was a bold counterstroke.

Motors? What Motors? 2009
Thus, by the standards of the time, western Europeans launched their counterstroke of the Crusades essentially as quickly as they possibly could after it first became feasible for them to do so — and not centuries after the insult.

The crusader. Ann Althouse 2009
Lousy command dice prevented a counterstroke & Carthage failed army morale.

Camp Cromwell 23/06/08 Cromwell MkI 2008
“Is it because they feared the massive counterstroke which they would immediately receive from our powerful bombing force?”

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
The American VII Corps would be in mobile reserve behind the Arab Army, fitting out and preparing to react to an Iraqi counterstroke.

'We'll Win, But...' 2008
Lousy command dice prevented a counterstroke & Carthage failed army morale.

Archive 2008-06-01 Cromwell MkI 2008
This is one of the few comics where an attack of sorts occurs on Iran, and there is a counterstroke, which ends up badly for all involved.

Archive 2007-11-01 Tripp 2007