antidote
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See also: Antidote
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin antidotum, from Ancient Greek ἀντίδοτος (antídotos, “antidote, remedy”), from ἀντιδίδωμι (antidídōmi, “I give in return, repay”), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”). Compare French antidote.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.doʊt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun[edit]
antidote (plural antidotes)
- A remedy to counteract the effects of poison.
- Synonyms: mithridatic, alexipharmic, alexipharmac, alexipharmacum, alexiteric, alexitery, treacle, theriac
- She reached the hospital in time to receive the antidote for the snake venom.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 149, column 2:
- Can'ſt thou not Miniſter to a minde diſeas'd, / Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the Braine, / And with ſome ſweet Obliuious Antidote / Cleanſe the ſtufft boſome, of that perillous ſtuffe / Which weighes vpon the heart?
- 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
- (figurative) Something that counteracts or prevents something harmful.
- Synonym: remedy
- We need an antidote for this misinformation.
Usage notes[edit]
In reference to the specific poison the antidote is protective against, used with the prepositions against or for or used with an explanatory infinitive verb.
Hyponyms[edit]
- (poison remedy): antivenom, antivenin, antivenene; universal antidote, mithridate, mithridatium, mithridaticon, theriac, Venice treacle, treacle
- (antidotes made from animal fluids): serum, antiserum
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Translations[edit]
remedy to counteract a poison
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something that counteracts
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Verb[edit]
antidote (third-person singular simple present antidotes, present participle antidoting, simple past and past participle antidoted)
- (transitive) To counteract as an antidote.
- 2007, Suzanne C. Lawton, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Asperger syndrome: natural steps toward a better life, page 143:
- For his part, the patient must avoid some commonplace substances in order to avoid antidoting or stopping the action of the homeopathic remedy […]
Translations[edit]
to counteract as an antidote
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “antidote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin antidotum.
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Noun[edit]
antidote m (plural antidotes)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “antidote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Verb[edit]
antidote
- inflection of antidotar:
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