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antidote
[ an-ti-doht ]
noun
- a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
- something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects:
Good jobs are the best antidote to teenage crime.
verb (used with object)
- to counteract with an antidote:
Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.
antidote
/ ˈæntɪˌdəʊt /
noun
- med a drug or agent that counteracts or neutralizes the effects of a poison
- anything that counteracts or relieves a harmful or unwanted condition; remedy
antidote
/ ăn′tĭ-dōt′ /
- A substance that counteracts the effects of a poison.
Derived Forms
- ˌantiˈdotal, adjective
Other Words From
- anti·dotal an·ti·dot·i·cal [an-ti-, dot, -i-k, uh, l], adjective
- anti·dotal·ly anti·doti·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of antidote1
Example Sentences
It would be inaccurate though to call SIX a direct antidote to ALEC.
On the surface, Krampus is a great antidote to the Rockettes and Black Friday.
I highly doubt that anyone not already in a state of despair would look to war as an antidote to Godlessness.
Reformers understood that constructive societal evolution was the antidote to socialist revolution.
“Accelerate this process,” said Royce, adding that the Free Syrian Army is the antidote to the ongoing expansion of ISIS in Syria.
They affirmed it was an antidote to all poison; that it expelled rheums, sour humours, and obstructions of all kinds.
Another poet of the fifth century recommends the mystical charm as an antidote to diseases of cattle.
Nevertheless, there is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation.
To minds of a different description, the only antidote to this corruption of language is predication.
Again and again the snake bites the iguana, and as often the latter has recourse to the counteracting influences of the antidote.
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