antidote
noun
a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
antidotal
-
a word derived from
antidote.
Example Sentences
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In an antidotal, and almost paradoxical way, podcasts are the Internet freed from pixels.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014
With antidotal efficacy, it nullifies the virus of proscription so that it does not stagnate the blood nor paralyze the limb of an up-treading and on-going race.
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The likelihood is that whatever virtue the red clover can boast for counteracting a scrofulous disposition, and as antidotal to cancer, resides in its highly-elaborated lime, silica, and other earthy salts.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
The woods might have been filled with antidotal remedies, and I have died in their midst.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
The antidotal character of treacle comes out yet more in these lines of Lydgate: “There is no venom so parlious in sharpnes, As whan it hath of treacle a likenes”.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
