counterdemolition
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- counter-demolition (rare)
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Noun edit
counterdemolition (uncountable)
- (rare) A demolition meant to retaliate for another.
- 1943, Gregory Meiksins, chapter X, in The Baltic Riddle[1], New York: L. B. Fischer, page 185:
- There was no counterdemolition to retaliate for the wholesale destruction carried out by the Civil Guards in the Finnish territory ceded to Russia.