All counterplot synonyms
coun·ter·plot
C c verb counterplot
- baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
- foil — to cover or back with foil.
- scuttle — Nautical. a small hatch or port in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel. a cover for this.
- spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- cook — When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
- overturn — to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
- quell — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- skunk — a small North American mammal, Mephitis mephitis, of the weasel family, having a black coat with a white, V -shaped stripe on the back, and ejecting a fetid odor when alarmed or attacked.
- block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
- neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- victimise — to make a victim of.
- edge out — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- nose out — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
noun counterplot
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- complot — a plot or conspiracy
- covin — a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another
- put-up job — a plan or an event that has been arranged secretly in order to trick or deceive somebody