Countermine (Noun)
Meaning
(military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- British miners laboring behind enemy lines on no-man's land siphoning secrets tunneled covert paths hidden like lost capillaries veiling critical vital operational sensitive logistics war crypt strategically underneath below line during bloody insubverted history whose lines faint scratched counts secret whose success blizz secretly opened clear battlefield to countermine enemy tactics at Vicksburg.
- Countermine efforts were an extensive part of the battle strategy at Petersburg in the American Civil War.
- In such war of entrenchments even much easier simple obvious necessity both sides counted on countermine operations.
- On the eve of the operation's start the opposing forces made extensive efforts to countermine the enemy.
- British soldiers held the upper hand in situations requiring combat engineers able to set up large dig operations to safely uncover undetected enemy passage networks and work to countermine such trenches and tunnels as at Loos and Verdun to cut them off from communication and supplies.