Counterattack is valid Scrabble Word

Is counterattack a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

13 letters word
21 points in Scrabble
25 points in WWF

Definitions for COUNTERATTACK in dictionary:

VERB:

to attack in response to an attack
make a counterattack

NOUN:

an attack made in response to one by an opponent
an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.
(chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent\'s advantage in another part of the board
attack in response

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a piece (as of metal or plastic) used in reckoning or in games

Words related to COUNTERATTACK

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Words that contain COUNTERATTACK

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How to use COUNTERATTACK in a sentence

Julien and elsewhere in France and Flanders, by immediately turning upon the Germans with a counter-attack which was carried out both coolly and skilfully.
Here they had found a target that was not only loathsome on its face, but clearly ripe for counterattack.
In point of fact, they would never suffer any such counter-attack.
Hostile retaliation is not anticipated, but arrangements will be made to deal summarily with any counterattack.
In 615 came a decisive counter-attack from the Turks.
The Ottoman forces were liberated for a counterattack on Peloponnesos.
About dusk a counter-attack was attempted by the enemy on the right front.
A defensive flank was formed, and X Company moved to the north-east of Hyencourt to deliver a counter-attack if necessary.
He was about to attack, and everyone was waiting for the anticipated onslaught without fear, as all felt that any counter-attack would be repulsed with great loss.
A surprise counterattack by the Germans December 2, compelled the British to give up one-fourth of the ground gained.

And a counter-attack on Neuve Chapelle was being organised.
Later in the day a counter-attack by the enemy was well repulsed by the First Army Corps, a great many prisoners and some guns again falling into our hands.
On the night of the 21st another violent counter-attack was repulsed by the Third Division, the enemy losing heavily.
Attack and counter-attack occurred at all hours of the night and day throughout the whole position, demanding extreme vigilance, and permitting only a minimum of rest.
A great counter-attack was initiated by the French and Americans along the Marne-Aisne front July 18, 1918.
As the counter-attack in France gained in force, as the retreat continued, it was recognized on all hands that the end was approaching.
Infantry were in the act of occupying an important hill when they were met with a strong counter-attack.
No answer came to his challenge, no rise to counter-attack.
Had the Germans launched a counter-attack immediately after the bombardment, we should have had difficulty in holding the position.
This proved to be the last big hostile counter-attack attempted, and indeed both sides were content to remain in their own trenches.
However, the enemy elected to employ the whole of his available reserves in an immediate counter-attack.
Towards the morning the Turks delivered a determined counter-attack.
Farther to the left, a counter-attack was repulsed by the 10th Division.
On the 14th March, the enemy moved forward to counter-attack the Ballut Ridge line, but were caught in close formation by our artillery and the counter-attack never developed.
The bombardment was followed up by a determined counter-attack, but this was repulsed, the battalion of Dorsets being brought back to support the Outrans on the hill.
Later on, some batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery and our field guns, which had come up, sealed the fate of the Germans and prevented a counter-attack.
Had the war lasted a few months longer, however, the work of American scientists would have made our counter-attack in the air a formidable one.
We did so well that the enemy had to counter-attack, which he did in the most determined manner, forcing us back.
Single-handed he held up a strong counter-attack from the Turks massing on our left.
But this inspection was cut short, for now came the counter-attack.
It was now that Graham and the 56th Rifles checked the counter-attack, which threatened to drive a wedge between the Leicestershires and the river.
If their infantry was held back from making a counter-attack, their heavy guns, and here and there, machine-guns, were not idle.
He wished Franz and Iggy could be of the rescue party, but they were already out of the trench, under the leadership of one of the lieutenants, making a fierce counter-attack.
I have not the slightest doubt that there will be a heavy counter-attack, which we shall repel.

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