Synonyms of the word

countermine

• n. A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
• n. An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
• n. A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
• v. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.

counteract

• v. To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on.
• v. To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.

countermeasure

• n. Any action taken to counteract or correct another.

disobey

• v. (transitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody).
• v. (intransitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey.

mine

• pron. My; belonging to me; that which belongs to me.
• n. An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
• n. (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
• n. (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle,…
• n. (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
• n. (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To remove (ore) from the ground.
• v. To dig into, for ore or metal.
• v. (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
• v. (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
• v. (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
• v. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine;…
• v. (slang) To pick one's nose.
• v. (computing) to create new units of cryptocurrency by calculations.
• n. Alternative form of mien.

sabotage

• n. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
• n. (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a…
• v. to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

undermine

• v. To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
• v. (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.