different between countercharge vs counterchange

English

Etymology

counter- +? charge

Noun

countercharge (plural countercharges)

1. An accusation against an opponent in an argument in response to the opponent's accusations.
2. An thrust or charge against an enemy in response to their previous attack.

Translations

Verb

countercharge (third-person singular simple present countercharges, present participle countercharging, simple past and past participle countercharged)

1. (heraldry) To reverse the colors.

English

Etymology

From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb).

Verb

counterchange (third-person singular simple present counterchanges, present participle counterchanging, simple past and past participle counterchanged)

1. To give and receive; C; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.

Synonyms

• (to cause to change places): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
• (to checker): checker, freck (rare, poetic)

Noun

counterchange (plural counterchanges)

1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].

References

• counterchange in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• counterchange in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.