Crossword-Solution: COUNTERVAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Countervail | v. t. | To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. |
| Countervail | n. | Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “COUNTERVAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| militate against | 23 answers |
| Offset | 24 answers |
| Counterbalance | 26 answers |
| Compensate | 39 answers |
| Make up (for) | 40 answers |
| Counteract | 49 answers |
| Neutralise | 56 answers |
| Neutralize | 58 answers |
| Redeem | 65 answers |
| Disable | 67 answers |
| rectify | 70 answers |
| BALANCE ___ | 83 answers |
| Answer | 84 answers |
| Correct | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with COUNTERVAIL (5)
What could he and his simple Grace do to countervail the passions of such as those two sophisticated beings—versed in the world’s ways, armed with every apparatus for victory? In such an encounter the homely timber-dealer felt as inferior as a bow-and-arrow savage before the precise weapons of modern warfare.
Yon knight doth sit too melancholy, As if the entertainment in our court Had not a show might countervail his worth.
Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity.
But, to countervail this grievous offence, our saintly and afflicted dame, in due time, was safely delivered of a fine boy whom the laird acknowledged as his son and heir, and had him christened by his own name, and nursed in his own premises.
But the power of execution, the manner of seeing nature, is one thing, and may be so superlative (if you are only able to judge of it) as to countervail every disadvantage of subject.
Quotes with COUNTERVAIL (3)
Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.
Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power So scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.