What's the difference between countermine and counterplot?

Countermine


Definition:

  • (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
  • (n.) A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
  • (v. t.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
  • (v. t.) To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
  • (v. i.) To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.

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Counterplot


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
  • (n.) A plot or artifice opposed to another.

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