📚 Counteract, verb. 🔉 /kaʊntərˈakt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it. ❗️ Examples: 1. Should we deliberately intervene in the climate system to counteract global warming? 2. Unequally spaced white stripes painted across the road leading up to an off-ramp have been used to create an illusion that counteracts motion adaptation and reduces driving speed. 3. Dark energy is a mysterious pressure that counteracts gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would. 4. Dynamic Drive is another option, fitted to the car we drove; it counteracts body lean to force the BMW level in corners. 5. Inverters can reduce overall crosstalk by counteracting the effects of switching, as long as the victim trace runs alongside both the native signal and its inverted form. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic