1. 
[syn: counterplot, counterplan]
VERB (1)
1.  make a plot in response to another plot; 
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Counterplot \Coun`ter*plot"\ (koun`t?r-pl?t"), v. t. [imp. & p.
   p. Counterplotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counterplotting.]
   To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to
   frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
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         Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been
         counterplotted.                          --De Quinsey.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Counterplot \Coun"ter*plot`\ (koun"t[~e]r-pl?t`), n.
   A plot or artifice opposed to another. --L'Estrange.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
counterplot
    n 1: a plot intended to subvert another plot [syn:
         counterplot, counterplan]
    v 1: make a plot in response to another plot