counterdemolition

English

Alternative forms

• counter-demolition (rare)

Etymology

From counter- +‎ demolition.

Noun

counterdemolition (uncountable)

1. (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.