Difference between Weaken and Countermine

WEAKEN vs COUNTERMINE: NOUN

(military) a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by the enemy
A tunnel dug to intercept and destroy an enemy's mine.
Milit., a mine driven from defense-works by the besieged, counter to a mine driven toward the defense-works by besiegers, the object being to meet and destroy the works of the latter party.
Hence A secret plan designed to frustrate the plans of an opponent; any antagonistic action or plan.
A mine or torpedo placed and exploded in a harbor entrance by an attacking navy to destroy the mines or torpedoes which guard the entrance.
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
A plot to frustrate or defeat an attack.

To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute.

To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit.
To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate.

To make weak or weaker; lesson or reduce the strength, power, ability, influence, or quality of: as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken a solution or infusion by dilution; to weaken the force of an argument.
To become weak or weaker: as, he weakens from day to day.
(transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become weak or weaker.

To make a countermine; counterplot; work against one secretly.
To counterwork; frustrate by secret and opposite measures.
To mine counter or in opposition to; resist by means of a countermine, as a besieging enemy or his works.

Undercut, Worsen, Diminish, Erode, De escalate, Step down, Countermine, Damp, Break, Counteract, Sabotage, Subvert, Soften, Dampen, Undermine

Manpad, Armored personnel carrier, Bouncing betty, Panzers, Hoplites, Counterfire, Minesweeping, Emplacement, Sappers, Airmobile, Undermine, Subvert, Weaken, Counteract, Sabotage

Hamper, Hinder, Cripple, Undercut, Worsen, Diminish, Erode, Countermine, Damp, Break, Counteract, Subvert, Soften, Dampen, Undermine

Sarmatian, Exoskeletal, Hindenburg line, Gendarmery, Manpad, Armored personnel carrier, Panzers, Hoplites, Counterfire, Minesweeping, Airmobile, Undermine, Subvert, Weaken, Counteract

There are traumas in life that weaken us.
Stretching the truth will only weaken your case.
Muscles tend to shorten and weaken with age.
It can even weaken the entire immune system.
Virtually all knots weaken line in various degrees.
All of that can weaken your lash lift.
Farm laws will weaken mandi system: Sharad Pawar.
So using the with end with, we can delete their sweetened delete this weaken, Delete this weaken.
Gaonic authority and caliphal authority were, the ga on implied, bound up with each other: weaken one and you weaken the other.
To weaken one is to weaken the other.

However, the tactical commander must provide all units of his command with current information and detailed training in countermine activities.
Advances in countermine technology allow for detection by thermal imaging and rapid breaching.
Epistles labour to countermine Satan in this design.