antidote

/ˈæn.tɪ.doʊt/

Etymology

From Latin antidotum, from Ancient Greek ἀντίδοτον (antídoton, “antidote, remedy”), Clipping of ἀντίδοτον φάρμακον (antídoton phármakon, “drug given against”), from ἀντιδίδωμι (antidídōmi, “to give in return, repay”), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Compare French antidote.

antidote means A remedy to counteract the effects of poison. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.

antidote is pronounced /ˈæn.tɪ.doʊt/.

noun

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison.“She reached the hospital in time to receive the antidote for the snake venom.”
Something that counteracts or prevents something harmful.“We need an antidote for this misinformation.”

verb

To counteract as an antidote.“Had she been less brilliantly efficient it might have ruined her business; had she been less impossibly absurd it would have spoiled her pleasure, but the two things simply antidoted one another.”