Antidote

['æntɪdəʊt] or ['æntɪdot]

Definition

(noun.) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison.

Editor: Moore--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

(n.) Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

(v. t.) To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.

(v. t.) To fortify or preserve by an antidote.

Editor: Manuel

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Counterpoison, anti-poison, counteractive, corrective.[2]. Remedy, cure, specific, restorative.

Checker: Sherman

Definition

n. that which is given against anything that would produce bad effects: a counter-poison: (fig.) anything that prevents evil (with against for to).—adj. An′tidotal.

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