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counteract

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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.

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The word 'counteract' is correct and can be used in written English. You can use 'counteract' when you want to describe a situation in which one force is being opposed or neutralized by a different force. For example, "The drug was designed to counteract the effects of the virus.".

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Wetherspoon is stepping up its efforts in the breakfast market to counteract slowing sales growth and what it says is the malign effect of cheap supermarket alcohol on the pub trade.

Without such a long-term context to short-term decision-making, short-term targets risk being inconsistent with long-term plans, ultimately necessitating more drastic mitigation strategies in the future to counteract earlier policy short-sightedness," it said.

To counteract this tendency, individuals and their firms must have a sense of their responsibilities for the broader system".

Miliband has paid the price for not speaking out louder and sooner to counteract the lies about the causes of the recession, and for treating core voters with contempt.

Why women don't apply for jobs unless they're 100% qualified: we've all heard the statistics but Tara Sophia Mohr looks at why it happens and what we can do to counteract it the voice in our heads.

Regular exercise helps counteract the effects of adrenalin, one of the hormones released when your body is stressed.

But the problem, apparently, is that "combined with their deep voices and 1940s haircuts, this rhetoric from the alpha males frames the issue in a 'practical expert versus excitable hysteric' narrative that is very hard to counteract if you are following one of them in a debate and are young and female.

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