counterplot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a plot intended to subvert another plot
    counterplan.
  2. verb make a plot in response to another plot

WordNet

Coun`ter*plot" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Counterplotted;present participle & verbal noun Counterplotting
Definitions
  1. 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 Quinsey.
Coun"ter*plot` noun
Definitions
  1. A plot or artifice opposed to another. L'Estrange.

Webster 1913