antidote

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nouncounteracting agent

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noun. substance that helps cure, alleviate, or prevent illness

Word Origin & History

"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).

Example Sentences forantidote

I only wished that my mother had been present to receive an antidote to Mrs. Coates.

Before she slept, I said, he must administer an antidote to Coates's poison.

Now, where can he find an antidote, who can teach him a healing formula?

“Work is the only antidote,” said the Doctor, not moving his eyes.

You are mistaken about there being an antidote and a poison.

The cynical town runs to artless art as an antidote to its own poison.

There can be no question of an antidote if there has been no poisoning.

And Ribiera administered the antidote with a further dose of poison.

This he readily accepted, trusting to the efficacy of the antidote.

He found what he went for, the antidote to the bite of the death's-head spider.

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