counterwork

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ work

Verb

counterwork (third-person singular simple present counterworks, present participle counterworking, simple past and past participle counterworked)

1. (transitive) To work in opposition to; to counteract.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     But Heav'n's great view is one, that that the Whole.
     That counterworks each folly and caprice;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “counterwork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)