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v. Present participle of counterattack.

"Media critics’ remarks should be taken constructively, or not at all, but to react to them by counterattacking is just plain foolishness."

counter-attacking    counterattacked    counterattacking    counterattacks   

assail    attack   

counter-attack    onslaught    setback    counterstroke    incursion