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antidote

[ an-ti-doht ]

noun

  1. a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
  2. something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects:

    Good jobs are the best antidote to teenage crime.



verb (used with object)

, an·ti·dot·ed, an·ti·dot·ing.
  1. to counteract with an antidote:

    Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.

antidote

/ ˈæntɪˌdəʊt /

noun

  1. med a drug or agent that counteracts or neutralizes the effects of a poison
  2. anything that counteracts or relieves a harmful or unwanted condition; remedy


antidote

/ ăntĭ-dōt′ /

  1. A substance that counteracts the effects of a poison.


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Derived Forms

  • ˌantiˈdotal, adjective

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Other Words From

  • anti·dotal an·ti·dot·i·cal [an-ti-, dot, -i-k, uh, l], adjective
  • anti·dotal·ly anti·doti·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of antidote1

1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin antidotum < Greek antídoton something given against (i.e., for counteracting), equivalent to anti- anti- + dotón neuter of dotós given, verbid of didónai to give; akin to datum

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Word History and Origins

Origin of antidote1

C15: from Latin antidotum, from Greek antidoton something given as a countermeasure, from anti- + didonai to give

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Example Sentences

“It’s a viewer-safe antidote to all the vitriol and negativity,” Schiller said.

From Digiday

The antidote would be some form of automatic voter registration, where everyone who turns 18 or becomes a naturalized citizen is automatically enrolled.

From Vox

All of the spores — the yeast’s gametes — get the poison, but only those that inherit certain gene versions also get an antidote.

The genes, known as wtf genes, produce both a poison and an antidote.

The platform’s debut comes nine years after CEO Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, proposed its creation in his book The Lean Startup as an antidote to the usual market pressures to pursue short-term results.

From Quartz

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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