Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison.
- noun An agent that relieves or counteracts.
- transitive verb To relieve or counteract with an antidote.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish with preservatives; preserve by antidotes; serve as an antidote to; counteract.
- noun A medicine adapted to counteract the effects of poison or an attack of disease.
- noun Whatever prevents or tends to prevent or counteract injurious influences or effects, whether physical or mental; a counteracting power or influence of any kind.
- noun Synonyms Remedy, cure, counteractive, corrective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.
- transitive verb To fortify or preserve by an antidote.
- noun A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with
against ,for , orto . - noun Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
remedy tocounteract the effects ofpoison (often followed by "against," "for," or "to"). - noun Something that counteracts or
prevents somethingharmful . - verb transitive To
counteract as an antidote.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It describes his own winter walk in heavy snow and his encounter with a small bird, whose example provided him with what he called the antidote of fear.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010
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In this sense, it could be called the antidote to terrorism.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The Bhagavad Gita Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 2012
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In this sense, it could be called the antidote to terrorism.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The Bhagavad Gita Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 2012
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In this sense, it could be called the antidote to terrorism.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The Bhagavad Gita Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 2012
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Our foremost antidote is and has been – knowledge.
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Presentation Speech 2008
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But it gets worse when his antidote is to vote for the explicitly anti-trade Obama!?
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Having already reached the birthday where you wake up suddenly looking your age, I can tell you the only antidote is another glass of champagne. mimi pompom |
cake 2007
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It was awful not being able to help, but as you say the only antidote is love.
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Every popup ad pushing American flags or e-mail spam offering an anthrax antidote is another piece of the picture.
Boing Boing: October 14, 2001 - October 20, 2001 Archives 2001
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The grand antidote is "the full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour," through which we know God the Father, partake of His nature, escape from the pollutions of the world, and have entrance into Christ's kingdom.
cosmican commented on the word antidote
Liberalization, an antidote to poverty
November 20, 2007
uselessness commented on the word antidote
What say we don't go there? ;-)
November 21, 2007