Word Meanings - COUNTERCHARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An opposing charge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COUNTERCHARGE)

• Recrimination
• Retort
• counter-imputation
• countercharge
• counteraccusation

Related words: (words related to COUNTERCHARGE)

• RETORTIVE
  Containing retort.
• RECRIMINATION
  The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation. Accusations and recriminations passed back ward and forward between the contending parties. Macaulay.
• RETORTION
  Retaliation. Wharton. (more info) 1. Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back. It was, however, necessary to possess some single term expressive of this intellectual retortion. Sir W. Hamilton.
• COUNTERCHARGE
  An opposing charge.
• RETORT
  1. To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line. With retorted head, pruned themselves as they floated. Southey. 2. To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect. As when his virtues, shining upon others, Heat them and they retort that heat again To
• RETORTER
  One who retorts.
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.