459 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kˈa͡ʊntəɹɪŋ], [ kˈa‍ʊntəɹɪŋ], [ k_ˈaʊ_n_t_ə_ɹ_ɪ_ŋ]

Related words: terrorism, terrorism research, counterterrorism, counter terrorism, counter-terrorism, terrorism prevention, terrorism prevention strategy, counterterrorism center

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Similar words for countering:

• counteractive (adjective)
• defensive (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• answering (verb)
• defending (verb)
• defying (verb)
• hindering (verb)
• opposing (verb)
• retaliating (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "countering" in context?

Paraphrases for countering

Homophones for countering

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Synonyms for Countering:

• adj.

  • counteractive (adjective)
  • counter to,
  • counter-productive,
  • counterproductive.
  • defensive (adjective)
  • cautious,
  • wary,
  • defensive,
  • secure,
  • guarded,
  • protective,
  • armored.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • counteractive.

• v.

  • answering (verb)
  • coming back,
  • countercharging,
  • Acknowledging,
  • Responding,
  • returning,
  • Retorting,
  • expounding,
  • Replying,
  • Rebutting,
  • echoing,
  • answering,
  • Explaining.
  • defending (verb)
  • opposing,
  • barring,
  • upholding,
  • arguing,
  • Policing,
  • Barricading,
  • defending,
  • screening,
  • covering,
  • guarding,
  • shielding,
  • saving,
  • backfiring,
  • averting,
  • counterattacking,
  • protecting,
  • Sustaining,
  • safeguarding,
  • Fending,
  • supporting,
  • Securing,
  • buffering,
  • Warding,
  • Sheltering.
  • defying (verb)
  • crossing,
  • rebelling,
  • facing,
  • confronting,
  • Resisting,
  • Defying,
  • Contravening,
  • dissenting,
  • Counteracting,
  • Countermanding,
  • daring,
  • Affronting,
  • challenging.
  • hindering (verb)
  • Entangling,
  • Complicating,
  • Plugging,
  • Staying,
  • constraining,
  • Damming,
  • stopping,
  • fettering,
  • Burdening,
  • Fouling,
  • Snagging,
  • bottlenecking,
  • Handicapping,
  • thwarting,
  • catching,
  • Interrupting,
  • Bunging,
  • constipating,
  • Detaining,
  • Delaying,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Clogging,
  • restricting,
  • Hampering,
  • Snarling,
  • Entrapping,
  • blocking,
  • frustrating,
  • crippling,
  • Restraining,
  • Miring,
  • Encumbering,
  • Hamstringing,
  • congesting,
  • Cramping,
  • braking,
  • choking,
  • Impairing,
  • curbing,
  • Deterring,
  • dragging,
  • Tangling,
  • jamming,
  • Crimping,
  • baffling.
  • opposing (verb)
  • Obstructing,
  • protesting,
  • antagonizing,
  • Contradicting,
  • Intercepting,
  • conflicting,
  • repressing,
  • inhibiting,
  • Disputing,
  • disagreeing,
  • interfering,
  • Oppressing,
  • Rebuffing,
  • Objecting,
  • Suppressing,
  • impeding,
  • meddling,
  • repelling,
  • hindering,
  • Repulsing,
  • fighting,
  • Checking.
  • retaliating (verb)
  • Exchanging,
  • Retaliating,
  • redressing,
  • Repaying,
  • Revenging,
  • reprising,
  • avenging,
  • reciprocating,
  • returning fire.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words:
  • career,
  • chip,
  • defence,
  • incapacitating,
  • rescue,
  • scotch,
  • audacious,
  • redeeming,
  • contradictory,
  • misrepresent,
  • busybodied,
  • exposition,
  • equaliser,
  • bright,
  • return,
  • forswearing,
  • defense,
  • boldness,
  • demurrer,
  • rebut,
  • maintain,
  • repellant,
  • fend for,
  • load-bearing,
  • hybridizing,
  • encroach,
  • wicked,
  • restrained,
  • correct,
  • batten down,
  • contagious,
  • procure,
  • obviation,
  • detection,
  • disgustful,
  • jam,
  • bilk,
  • hardihood,
  • pounding,
  • abnegation,
  • active,
  • traverse,
  • tampering,
  • suspicious,
  • leery,
  • timid,
  • conflict,
  • roughness,
  • crossroad,
  • fasten,
  • thought-provoking,
  • intriguing,
  • play off,
  • repeal,
  • loathly,
  • transmissible,
  • even off,
  • equipoise,
  • curb,
  • even up,
  • disputation,
  • dare,
  • nullify,
  • falsification,
  • armoured,
  • disowning,
  • transmittable,
  • premonition,
  • cross thwart,
  • crossbreeding,
  • venturous,
  • elusive,
  • argument,
  • manipulation,
  • apostasy,
  • deliverance,
  • foil,
  • crossway,
  • economy,
  • compensate,
  • void,
  • repellent,
  • countermine,
  • subvert,
  • offset,
  • combat-ready,
  • preservation,
  • guarantee,
  • fillet,
  • block,
  • busy,
  • disgusting,
  • equilibrium,
  • lining,
  • impregnable,
  • equalizer,
  • revolting,
  • carrefour,
  • officious,
  • yucky,
  • unassailable,
  • frustrative,
  • fight,
  • coating,
  • defection,
  • strangling,
  • problematical,
  • cross,
  • ford,
  • viewing,
  • avant-garde,
  • tilt,
  • sabotage,
  • cover,
  • countervail,
  • splintering,
  • cancel,
  • frustration,
  • communicable,
  • interbreeding,
  • untroubled,
  • throttling,
  • conservative,
  • respond,
  • contention,
  • treatment,
  • frustrate,
  • meddlesome,
  • presentiment,
  • renouncement,
  • redemptive,
  • obstructive,
  • falsifying,
  • repressive,
  • panoplied,
  • scrap,
  • electronic jamming,
  • make up,
  • fateful,
  • natural covering,
  • fight back,
  • intersection,
  • combat,
  • antagonise,
  • ambitious,
  • spying,
  • strangulation,
  • contestation,
  • delivery,
  • ensure,
  • opponent,
  • untrusting,
  • masking,
  • unattackable,
  • safe,
  • run afoul,
  • impinge,
  • annul,
  • portentous,
  • champion,
  • encouraging,
  • defensive attitude,
  • self-denial,
  • problematic,
  • dissident,
  • distasteful,
  • vocation,
  • even out,
  • spoil,
  • reverting,
  • justificatory,
  • invalidation,
  • pit,
  • neutralize,
  • refuse,
  • avoid,
  • reversive,
  • match,
  • veneer,
  • aversion,
  • respondent,
  • kerb,
  • fix,
  • guard,
  • hybridization,
  • dissentient,
  • self-abnegation,
  • controversy,
  • represent,
  • inhibitory,
  • contractable,
  • weaken,
  • undermine,
  • boding,
  • batten,
  • dependable,
  • mistrustful,
  • at odds,
  • application,
  • contracting,
  • knotty,
  • constrictive,
  • forgoing,
  • stop up,
  • countercheck,
  • preclusion,
  • assure,
  • cladding,
  • plug,
  • insure,
  • spotting,
  • crossover,
  • loathsome,
  • tough,
  • persisting,
  • support,
  • hardiness,
  • good,
  • baffle,
  • unafraid,
  • venturesome,
  • debunking,
  • self-renunciation,
  • confining,
  • fight down,
  • queer,
  • counterweight,
  • skanky,
  • picturing,
  • hold,
  • balance,
  • override,
  • vitiate,
  • espial,
  • disabling,
  • self-contradictory,
  • limiting,
  • quash,
  • showing,
  • indentation,
  • hybridisation,
  • crosswalk,
  • justificative,
  • strong,
  • hopeful,
  • reechoing,
  • foiling,
  • contradiction in terms,
  • neutralise,
  • blackball,
  • inviolable,
  • foul,
  • counterpoise.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • counteract,
  • disproof,
  • abjuration,
  • nullification,
  • foreboding,
  • Desking,
  • Heeling,
  • buffeting,
  • abrogation,
  • antagonize,
  • denial,
  • pitting,
  • chipping,
  • calling,
  • annulment,
  • Precluding,
  • Disproving,
  • dogging,
  • Foreclosing,
  • Negativing,
  • Preventing,
  • Ticketing,
  • impugn,
  • Blackguarding,
  • contradict,
  • Hounding,
  • counterbalance,
  • Refuting,
  • disclaimer,
  • thwart,
  • Anticipating,
  • Demurring,
  • promising,
  • retraction,
  • infringe,
  • controvert,
  • disprove,
  • react,
  • oppose,
  • contradiction,
  • recantation,
  • reacting,
  • refute,
  • repudiation,
  • disavowal,
  • abnegate,
  • revocation,
  • renunciation,
  • Disaffirmation,
  • Parrying,
  • deny,
  • Reversing,
  • Benching,
  • Traversing,
  • Expecting,
  • disownment,
  • belie,
  • Predicting,
  • Conversing,
  • negate,
  • Tabling,
  • forestalling,
  • refutation,
  • invalidate,
  • handling,
  • envisioning,
  • defend,
  • confute,
  • contravene,
  • Billeting.

How to use "Countering" in context?

Paraphrases for Countering:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    combat, Combating, Counteracting.
  • Proper noun, singular
    combat, fighting, Combating, Counteracting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    combat, fighting, Combating, Counteracting.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    controlling, Addressing, counter-terrorism.
  • Proper noun, singular
    confront, confronting, controlling, Addressing, Nays, Strikes, cons.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    controlling.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    absorbing, ameliorating, approaching, arresting, averting, balancing, blocking, breaking, challenging, confronting, constraining, contain, contrasting, controlling, dampening, defusing, disabling, discouraging, dissenting, easing, ending, failing, frustrating, grappling, handling, heading, hindering, hitting, hurting, impeding, interfering, lessening, lightening, limiting, mastering, pitting, processing, punishing, reducing, repressing, sanctioning, slowing, stifling, stopping, struggling, stunting, thwarting, Addressing, Anchoring, Avoiding, Boycotting, Bridging, Checking, Deleting, Denying, Destroying, Deterring, Dispelling, Disrupting, Eliminating, Experiencing, Hampering, Harnessing, Influencing, Managing, Mitigating, Objecting, Obstructing, Rectifying, Refusing, Rejecting, Relieving, Remedying, Removing, Replying, Resisting, Restraining, Reversing, Tilting, Treating, Weathering, Withstanding, Bashing, coping, Compensating, Containing, Curtailing, Precluding, Stemming, Stamping, penalizing, undermining, reacting, adversarial, redressing, braking, criminalizing, targeting, bestrijding.
  • Verb, base form
    block, challenge, confront, contradict, object, reject.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    counter, tackling, combatting.
  • Proper noun, singular
    counter, tackling, combatting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    counter, tackling, combatting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    counterbalancing, countervailing, cracking, dealing, fighting, halting, offsetting, opposing, tackling, Alleviating, Defeating, Encountering, Neutralizing, Refuting, Combating, Correcting, Counteracting, neutralising, combatting.
  • Verb, base form
    combat, thwart, Combating.

Homophones for Countering:

• cnidaria, condor, centaury, comandra, cosignatory, comminatory, center, centaurea, centre, china tree, commentary, contour, cometary, country, centaur, commutator, common meter, coconut water, canter, commander, commentator, commandeer, candour, contrary, coconut tree, cinder, candidature, century, candor, cantor, commuter, chantry, commandery, cemetery, commodore, cassandra, chanter, centare.