Vocabulary : Counteracted to Counterbrace

Counteracted : of Counteract
Counteractibely : By counteraction.
Counteracting : of Counteract
Counteraction : Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
Counteractive : Tending to counteract. ;; One who, or that which, counteracts.

Counterbalance : To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. ;; A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another ;; A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel ;; A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Counterbalanced : of Counterbalance
Counterbalancing : of Counterbalance
Counterbore : A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head. ;; A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth. ;; To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
Counterbrace : To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. ;; To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.

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