contramaniobra

f.

1 counter-maneuver, a sudden change of tactics.

2 counter-move, maneuver, manoeuvre.

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= counterplot.

Ex. This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.

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= counterplot.

Ex: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.