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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Counterplot \Coun`ter*plot"\ (koun`t?r-pl?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Counterplotted}; p. pr & vb n. {Counterplotting}.] To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. --De Quinsey. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Counterplot \Coun"ter*plot`\ (koun"t?r-pl?t`), n. A plot or artifice opposed to another. --L'Estrange. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: counterplot n : a plot intended to subvert another plot v : make a plot in response to another plot
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