countervail
verb
1 countervail
Compensate for or counterbalance.
synonym: offset.
Roget 28: be unequal etc. adj.; countervail; have the advantage, give the advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple, topple over; overmatch etc. 33; not come up to ... show more
Roget 468: countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut etc. (refute) 479; subvert etc. (destroy) 162; cheek, weaken; contravene; ... show more
2 countervail
Oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions.
synonyms: counteract, counterbalance, neutralize.
Roget 30: make compensation; compensate, compense†; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance†, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, ... show more
Dutch: neutraliseren, opvangen
Moby thesaurus: accommodate, adjust, amend, antagonize, atone for, balance, be antipathetic, be at cross-purposes, be inimical, be opposed to, beat against, cancel, clash, collide, compensate, conflict, conflict with, confute, contradict, contrapose ... show more.
countervailing
adjective
Roget 468: countervailing etc. v.; contradictory. unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.
Roget 30: compensating, compensatory; countervailing etc. v.; in the opposite scale; equivalent etc. (equal) 27.
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