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English
Etymology
counter- + offensive
Noun
counter-offensive (plural counter-offensives)
- An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.
Synonyms
Translations
attack made in response to a previous offensive
- Albanian: kundërsulm (sq) m
- Arabic: هُجُوم مُضَادّ m (hujūm muḍādd)
- Armenian: հակահարձակում (hy) (hakaharjakum)
- Azerbaijani: əks-hücum
- Belarusian: контрнаступле́нне n (kontrnastupljénnje)
- Bulgarian: контранастъпле́ние n (kontranastǎplénie)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 反攻 (faan2 gung1)
- Mandarin: 反攻 (zh) (fǎngōng)
- Czech: protiofenzíva f
- Danish: modoffensiv c
- Dutch: tegenoffensief (nl) n
- Esperanto: kontraŭofensivo, kontraŭatako
- Estonian: vastupealetung
- Finnish: vastahyökkäys
- French: contre-offensive (fr) f
- Georgian: კონტრშეტევა (ḳonṭršeṭeva)
- German: Gegenoffensive (de) f
- Greek: αντεπίθεση (el) f (antepíthesi)
- Hindi: जवाबी हमला m (javābī hamlā), प्रत्याक्रमण (hi) (pratyākramaṇ)
- Hungarian: ellentámadás (hu)
- Icelandic: gagnsókn (is) f
- Italian: controffensiva (it) f
- Japanese: 反攻 (ja) (はんこう, hankō)
- Kazakh: қарсы шабуыл (qarsy şabuyl)
- Korean: 반공(反攻) (ko) (ban'gong)
- Kyrgyz: каршы чабуул (karşı cabuul)
- Latvian: pretuzbrukums m
- Lithuanian: kontrpuolimas m
- Macedonian: контраофанзи́ва f (kontraofanzíva), противофанзи́ва f (protivofanzíva)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: motoffensiv m
- Persian: ضدحمله (fa) (zedd-e-hamle)
- Polish: kontrofensywa (pl) f, kontrnatarcie n
- Portuguese: contraofensiva f
- Romanian: contraofensivă (ro) f
- Russian: контрнаступле́ние (ru) n (kontrnastuplénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: контраофанзива f, противофанзива f, протофензива f
- Roman: kontraofanziva f, protivofanziva f, protofenziva f
- Slovak: protiofenzíva f
- Slovene: protiofenziva f
- Spanish: contraofensiva f
- Swedish: motoffensiv (sv) c
- Tajik: ҳуҷуми ҷавобӣ (hujumi javobī), ҳамлаи ҷавобӣ (hamlayi javobī), зидди ҳамла (ziddi hamla)
- Tibetan: རྒོལ་ལན (rgol lan), ཕར་རྒོལ་དམག་འཐབ (phar rgol dmag 'thab), རྒོལ་ལན་གྱི་དམག་འཐབ (rgol lan gyi dmag 'thab)
- Turkish: karşı saldırı (tr)
- Ukrainian: контрна́ступ m (kontrnástup)
- Urdu: جَوابی حَمْلَہ m (javābī hamlā)
- Uyghur: قايتۇرما ھۇجۇم (qayturma hujum)
- Uzbek: qarshi hujum
- Vietnamese: phản công (vi), sự phản công (vi)
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Adjective
counter-offensive (comparative more counter-offensive, superlative most counter-offensive)
- Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.
Derived terms