👉 Countermanded is a term used in linguistics and computer science to describe a command or action that results in a different result than if it were executed directly. In other words, it means that one command, caused by another, leads to an unexpected outcome. For example, consider the following sentence: "I want to go to the store but my car won't start." If I were to execute this sentence directly, I would have gone to the store. However, if I executed the counter