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Counter-plot

Coun'ter-plŏt', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.

Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quincey.

Coun'ter-plŏt, n.

noun

n. A plot or artifice opposed to another. L'Estrange.