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countermand
 
SYLLABICATION:coun·ter·mand
PRONUNCIATION:  kountr-mnd, kountr-mnd
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: coun·ter·mand·ed, coun·ter·mand·ing, coun·ter·mands
1. To cancel or reverse (a previously issued command or order). 2. To recall by a contrary order: countermanded the air strikes.
NOUN:(kountr-mnd)1. An order or command reversing another one. 2. Cancellation of an order or command.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English countremaunden, from Old French contremander : contre-, counter- + mander, to command (from Latin mandre; see man-2 in Appendix I).
 
 
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