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antitoxic

American  
[an-ti-tok-sik, an-tee-] / ˌæn tɪˈtɒk sɪk, ˌæn ti- /

adjective

  1. counteracting toxic influences.

  2. of or serving as an antitoxin.


Etymology

Origin of antitoxic

First recorded in 1885–90; anti- + toxic

Example Sentences

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She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unless an antitoxic serum is administered, death from respiratory paralysis usually follows.

From Time Magazine Archive

After we have squeezed out of it such antitoxic serum as we can, we will briefly indicate the application of it to larger questions.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various

As a rule it has no action on the corresponding toxin, i.e. is not antitoxic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

He is antitoxic; he is a literary germicide of peculiar power.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

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