Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigDictionary
be counteract
verb
To act in opposition to; thwart; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Exact(1)
Above-mentioned side effects could be counteract modulating elastic chains forces to an optimum level and by using straight lingual archwires with suitable stiffness.
Similar(59)
Too much salt needs to be counteracted with acid, cream or butter.
Does poverty itself need to be eradicated, or can its effects on children somehow be counteracted?
Ubiquitination of a target molecule is a reversible process and can be counteracted by deubiquitinases.
It wasn't bad, but after years of denigrating the European Union, the poison can't easily be counteracted.
A walking robot, by contrast, can fall in many directions, including some that cannot easily be counteracted by a motor.
Analysts said the negative effect of the economic reports could only be counteracted by positive news from corporations.
Therefore, loss of balance control should already be counteracted during immobilization.
This loss of HAT function (or acetyltransferase activity) may be counteracted by inhibiting HDACs (or reducing deacetylase activity).
For treating a disease, the mechanism could be counteracted to effectively starve the more productive bacteria and weaken the infection.
Instead, a thumbs-down view will soon be counteracted by thumbs up from other readers.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com