antidote
[an-ti-doht]
- 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.
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- to counteract with an antidote: Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.
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Origin of antidote
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Contemporary Examples
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.
From The Square Deal to The New Deal: The Overlapping Political Identities of TR and FDRJohn Avlon
September 9, 2014
“Accelerate this process,” said Royce, adding that the Free Syrian Army is the antidote to the ongoing expansion of ISIS in Syria.
Qutb himself did not make the Caliphate central to his thought, but his disciples saw it as the only antidote to jahiliyyah.
The antidote to both dangers—fireworks and drunk driving—is the same: tighter regulation.
Historical Examples
I only wished that my mother had been present to receive an antidote to Mrs. Coates.
Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
Before she slept, I said, he must administer an antidote to Coates's poison.
Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
Now, where can he find an antidote, who can teach him a healing formula?
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
“Work is the only antidote,” said the Doctor, not moving his eyes.
Dr. SevierGeorge W. Cable
You are mistaken about there being an antidote and a poison.
antidote
- 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
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Word Origin
C15: from Latin antidotum, from Greek antidoton something given as a countermeasure, from anti- + didonai to give
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Word Origin and History for antidote
n.
"remedy counteracting poison," 1510s (earlier in English as a Latin word), from Middle French antidot and directly from Latin antidotum "a remedy against poison," from Greek antidoton "given as a remedy," literally "given against," verbal adjective of antididonai "give in return," from anti- "against" + didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)). Cf. Middle English antidotarie "treatise on drugs or medicines" (c.1400).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
antidote
(ăn′tĭ-dōt′)- An agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison.
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antidote
[ăn′tĭ-dōt′]
- A substance that counteracts the effects of a poison.
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