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COUNTERACT

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counteract verb tranzitiv

1. a împiedica, a zădărnici; a coatracara; a respinge, a rezista (la; sau cu dat.).

2. a neutraliza, a anula; a nimici (un atac etc.).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Counteracting the gene’s deficiencies also repaired neuronal circuit deficits in adult mice – suggesting clues for potential treatment strategies.

(Schizophrenia risk gene linked to cognitive deficits in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Possibly his success in capturing so many hunters and boats had counteracted the customary reaction.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He now bore off to the right to counteract the possible deviation from his true course.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Elinor would not argue upon the propriety of overcoming such feelings;—she only endeavoured to counteract them by working on others;—represented it, therefore, as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother, whom she so much wished to see, in a more eligible, more comfortable manner, than any other plan could do, and perhaps without any greater delay.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

As this agent allows for some purine/pyrimidine synthesis to occur, the toxic effects of folic acid antagonist-type chemotherapeutic drugs are counteracted while still permitting the antitumor activity of the folic acid antagonist through dihydrofolate reductase inhibition.

(Leucovorin, NCI Thesaurus)

Elizabeth, who had a letter to write, went into the breakfast room for that purpose soon after tea; for as the others were all going to sit down to cards, she could not be wanted to counteract her mother's schemes.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He saw how ill he had judged, in expecting to counteract what was wrong in Mrs. Norris by its reverse in himself; clearly saw that he had but increased the evil by teaching them to repress their spirits in his presence so as to make their real disposition unknown to him, and sending them for all their indulgences to a person who had been able to attach them only by the blindness of her affection, and the excess of her praise.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

His cheerfulness will counteract this.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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