ANTIDOTE
\ˈantɪdˌə͡ʊt], \ˈantɪdˌəʊt], \ˈa_n_t_ɪ_d_ˌəʊ_t]\
Definitions of ANTIDOTE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.
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To fortify or preserve by an antidote.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.
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To fortify or preserve by an antidote.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A medicine which counteracts the effects of poison or disease; that which annuls, counteracts, or tends to prevent evil; a remedy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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That which is given against anything that would produce bad effects: a counter-poison: (fig.) anything that prevents evil.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Originally, this word signified an internal remedy. It is now used synonymously with counter-poison, antipharmacum, (F.) Contre-poison, and signifies any remedy capable of combating the effect of poison.
By Robley Dunglison
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A remedy for poisoning. Antidotes are distinguished as chemical, or those that change the chemical nature of the poison; mechanical, or those that prevent absorption of the poison; and physiologic, or those that counteract the effects of the poison by producing other effects.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A remedial agent which counteracts the effect of a poison or destroys the poison itself. List of poisons and their antidotes, see in appendix.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe