COUNTERWORK Synonyms

• try to prevent; show opposition to

• turn away from by persuasion

• a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal

• anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities

• a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through

• picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector

• a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

• enhance by contrast

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• cover or back with foil

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• treat cruelly

• located at or near the back of an animal

• be a hindrance or obstacle to

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• put at a disadvantage

• be a hindrance or obstacle to

• block passage through

• declare invalid

• show to be invalid

• make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• block passage through

• shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight

• be against; express opposition to

• fight against or resist strongly

• contrast with equal weight or force

• set into opposition or rivalry

• act against or in opposition to

• be resistant to

• elude, especially in a baffling way

• stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something

• express opposition through action or words

• withstand the force of something

• resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

• refuse to comply

• a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• hollow out as if making a cave or opening