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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Antidote \An"ti*dote\, n. [L. antidotum Gr ? (sc. ?), fr ? given against; ? against + ? to give: cf F. antidote. See {Dose}, n.] 1. 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. 2. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Antidote \An"ti*dote\, v. t. 1. To counteract or prevent the effects of by giving or taking an antidote. Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. --South. 2. To fortify or preserve by an antidote. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: antidote n : stops or controls the effects of a poison [syn: {counterpoison}]
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