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Today’s Word: counter

Today’s Word: counter

March 19, 2018 =========

☆  counter  反対する

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If you do something to counter an action or process, you do something which makes it less effective. I was looking online for some example sentences, but all I could find were sentences about kitchen counters and bar counters! Ha ha, a good adjective to describe that would be that my actions were “counterproductive.” In other words, it achieved the opposite result from the one I wanted, so as you can see, it’s similar to our verb, “counter.”

So here are some better sentence examples using the word counter as a verb:

The government needs to do something to counter the effects of rising prices.
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