antidote
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.
to counteract with an antidote: Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.
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Origin of antidote
1Other words from antidote
- an·ti·dot·al, an·ti·dot·i·cal [an-ti-dot-i-kuhl], /ˌæn tɪˈdɒt ɪ kəl/, adjective
- an·ti·dot·al·ly, an·ti·dot·i·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use antidote in a sentence
“It’s a viewer-safe antidote to all the vitriol and negativity,” Schiller said.
‘A viewer-safe antidote’: The Dodo’s audience and ad business surges in 2020 | Max Willens | October 7, 2020 | DigidayThe antidote would be some form of automatic voter registration, where everyone who turns 18 or becomes a naturalized citizen is automatically enrolled.
How to fix America’s voter registration system so more people can vote | Jen Kirby | October 6, 2020 | VoxAll of the spores — the yeast’s gametes — get the poison, but only those that inherit certain gene versions also get an antidote.
This year’s SN 10 scientists aim to solve some of science’s biggest challenges | Science News Staff | September 30, 2020 | Science NewsThe genes, known as wtf genes, produce both a poison and an antidote.
This year’s SN 10 scientists aim to solve some of science’s biggest challenges | Science News Staff | September 30, 2020 | Science NewsThe 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.
Eric Ries is on an all-or-nothing mission to reform capitalism | John Detrixhe | September 9, 2020 | 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.
From The Square Deal to The New Deal: The Overlapping Political Identities of TR and FDR | John Avlon | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Accelerate this process,” said Royce, adding that the Free Syrian Army is the antidote to the ongoing expansion of ISIS in Syria.
After Steven Sotloff Murder, Congress Demands a Vote on Obama’s ISIS War | Josh Rogin | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey affirmed it was an antidote to all poison; that it expelled rheums, sour humours, and obstructions of all kinds.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Another poet of the fifth century recommends the mystical charm as an antidote to diseases of cattle.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowNevertheless, there is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonTo minds of a different description, the only antidote to this corruption of language is predication.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillAgain and again the snake bites the iguana, and as often the latter has recourse to the counteracting influences of the antidote.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de Rougemont
British Dictionary definitions for antidote
/ (ˈæntɪˌdəʊt) /
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
Origin of antidote
1Derived forms of antidote
- antidotal, adjective
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Scientific definitions for antidote
[ ăn′tĭ-dōt′ ]
A substance that counteracts the effects of a poison.
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