Meaning

1 senses

  1. To react to another person by refraining from doing what they do; to deliberately not imitate.

Origin

From counter- + imitate.

From counter- + imitate.

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Forms

counterimitates, counterimitating, counterimitated, counterimitated
Base formcounterimitate · to counterimitate
3rd person singularcounterimitates
Present participlecounterimitating
Past simplecounterimitated
Past participlecounterimitated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycounterimitate
he, she, itcounterimitates

Past simpleLesson

all personscounterimitated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave counterimitated
he, she, ithas counterimitated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill counterimitate

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcounterimitationcounterimitative

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
counterfeitcounterfeitercounterfeitingcounterintuitivecountermeasurecounterpart
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