countermine

How To Use countermine In A Sentence

• I think such a thing would actually countermine a lot of his message, which was that nature could be approachable by anyone. Remembering Steve Irwin | EW.com
• Sedition has, at last, countermined itself, and conspiracy we have seen in effect perishing by its own excesses. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
• Another 20 unknown contacts were countermined in harbours as the team responded to USN unmanned vehicle or marine mammal searches.
• A mine dug through the solid rock below the castle was intercepted by a countermine, bringing the mining to an end.
• ABSTRACT The passive location systems play an important role in electronic countermine .
• The reader will pardon a digression in which so invaluable a secret is communicated, since every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined. Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune
• Mingle in their follies, and see they cover not deeper designs under the appearance of female levity — if they do mine, do thou countermine. The Abbot
• Mining, with gunpowder now replacing the pig-fat of yesteryear, might accelerate the process, but a wily defender would have prepared countermine galleries of his own, and a wet ditch presented particular problems.
• A countermine was successful when an enemy tunnel was intercepted.