counterchallenge

An obsolete verb meaning to challenge in return or to issue a reciprocal challenge.

• 🇩🇪Veraltetes Verb, das bedeutet, eine Gegenherausforderung auszusprechen oder einen Gegenvorschlag zu machen.

1. Challenge in turn C1 formal

   To respond to a challenge by issuing a challenge back, often in a competitive or argumentative context.

   • After he questioned her authority, she counterchallenged him to prove his own credentials.
   • The debater counterchallenged his opponent to provide a single source for the claim.
   • When the king issued a decree, the rebel leader counterchallenged him to a duel.

   🇩🇪Gegenherausforderung

   Synonyme: counterreciprocateretaliate

   Antonyme: acceptconcedesubmitsurrenderyield

• counterchallenged past participle
• counterchallenged past simple
• counterchallenging present participle
• counterchallenges third person singular