counter² v [T] 1 to prevent something or reduce its effect 防止; 抑制: efforts to counter inflation 抑制通货膨胀的努力 2 to say something in order to try to prove that what someone said is not true 反驳，反对: "That's not what the statistics show," she countered. “那不是统计数据所显示的。”她反驳道。