0 present participle of counteract
1 to reduce or remove the effect of something unwanted by producing an opposite effect:
Drinking a lot of water counteracts the dehydrating effects of hot weather.
Taking into account the absence of counteracting pressure in the corona plasma, it is possible to expect it pinching onto the cold core plasma.
Counteracting the conduct-book-like prescriptions of their words, the performative force of the female voice undoes the drama and defies its constraining messages.
The energetic advantage is balanced by counteracting thermal fluctuations, resulting in an equilibrium of growing, dividing and merging micelles.
The clues that participants give to suggest that dance can aid in counteracting the marginalization of their situation are there in a variety of instances.
How well do the novels under discussion succeed in counteracting the mechanisms of hegemonic discourse?
The possibility of counteracting this bias has been investigated.
The views and perspectives of older people are crucially important in counteracting a policy and service development agenda that may be increasingly medically-dominated.
In the limit, without any counteracting mechanism, these fluctuations may become so extreme that output collapses.
