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antidote
[ an-ti-doht ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
- to counteract with an antidote:
Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.
antidote
/ ˈæԳɪˌəʊ /
noun
- 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
antidote
/ ă′ĭ-ō′ /
- A substance that counteracts the effects of a poison.
Derived Forms
- ˌԳپˈdzٲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- t·dza ·پ·dz·· [an-ti-, dot, -i-k, uh, l], adjective
- t·dza·ly t·dzi·· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of antidote1
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Example Sentences
And, surprise, only he has the antidote, giving the public 30 days to find him before the first Hapna users start dropping.
During the campaign, Luna positioned himself as the calm antidote to what he described as the “dysfunction and chaos” of his opponent.
That toughening was welcomed by the public as an antidote to a judicial system stymied by an indulgent culture of successive appeals that enabled – and sometimes still enables - politicians to dodge accountability for decades.
So, perhaps, in this moment, an antidote against Amazon’s grip can be shifting the way we view time.
Mayonnaise is the antidote to some of the stripped-down, minimalist food trends of the past decade.
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