Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to countervail
Participle: countervailed
Gerund: countervailing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | countervail |
| you | countervail |
| he;she;it | countervails |
| we | countervail |
| you | countervail |
| they | countervail |
Perfect
| I | have countervailed |
| you | have countervailed |
| he;she;it | has countervailed |
| we | have countervailed |
| you | have countervailed |
| they | have countervailed |
Past
| I | countervailed |
| you | countervailed |
| he;she;it | countervailed |
| we | countervailed |
| you | countervailed |
| they | countervailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had countervailed |
| you | had countervailed |
| he;she;it | had countervailed |
| we | had countervailed |
| you | had countervailed |
| they | had countervailed |
Future
| I | will countervail |
| you | will countervail |
| he;she;it | will countervail |
| we | will countervail |
| you | will countervail |
| they | will countervail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have countervailed |
| you | will have countervailed |
| he;she;it | will have countervailed |
| we | will have countervailed |
| you | will have countervailed |
| they | will have countervailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | countervail |
| you | countervail |
| he;she;it | countervail |
| we | countervail |
| you | countervail |
| they | countervail |
Perfect
| I | have countervailed |
| you | have countervailed |
| he;she;it | have countervailed |
| we | have countervailed |
| you | have countervailed |
| they | have countervailed |
Imperfect
| I | countervailed |
| you | countervailed |
| he;she;it | countervailed |
| we | countervailed |
| you | countervailed |
| they | countervailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had countervailed |
| you | had countervailed |
| he;she;it | had countervailed |
| we | had countervailed |
| you | had countervailed |
| they | had countervailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would countervail |
| you | would countervail |
| he;she;it | would countervail |
| we | would countervail |
| you | would countervail |
| they | would countervail |
Perfect
| I | would have countervailed |
| you | would have countervailed |
| he;she;it | would have countervailed |
| we | would have countervailed |
| you | would have countervailed |
| they | would have countervailed |
Imperative
| you | countervail |
| we | Let's countervail |
| you | countervail |
Verbs conjugated like 'countervail'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'countervail'
counterraid,
counteract,
counterarm,
counterbid,
counterclaim,
counterdrain,
counterfeit,
countermand,
countermark,
counterpart,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman countrevaloir (Old French contrevaloir), from Latin contrā valēre (“to be strong against”).
Sample Sentences
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Nay could their numbers counteruaile the ſtars
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Or [euer] driſling drops of April ſhowers,
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Or withered leaues that Autume ſhaketh down,
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Yet would the Souldane by his conquering power:
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So ſcatter and conſume them in his rage,
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That not a man ſhal liue to rue their fall. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:]
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It cannot counteruaile the exchange of joy / That one ſhort minute giues me in her ſight: [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 63, column 2:]
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[…] should I find thine ear closed and thy heart hardened, what hope for myself could countervail the despair for thee? [1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter II, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book IV, page 209:]
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When justice stops being effective (or when crimes of corruption stop being punished) and when political violence is no longer a threat, there is nothing left to cause fear in those who govern shamelessly, that is, buoyed by a mood they aren’t in control of and that no one is on hand to countervail. [2020 February 8, Patrick Boucheron, “'Real power is fear': what Machiavelli tells us about Trump in 2020”, in The Guardian:]
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I am one of those who thinke their fruit can no way countervaile this losse. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 38, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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countervail a very confiderable Advantage to all Men of Letters [c. 1700, Roger L'Estrange, Seneca's Morals:]
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If [Wilfred] Owen preserves his youthful romanticism, or at least a shell of it, he uses it to countervail the horrifying scenes he describes, just as he poses his own youth against the age-old spectacle of men dying in pain and futility. [1988, Richard Ellmann, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 2nd edition, New York: W.W. Norton, page 539:]