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chemical antidote(medicine)

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antidote noun. LME.
[French, or Latin antidotum from Greek antidoton use as noun of neut. of antidotos, formed as ANTI- + do- stem of didonai give.]
A medicine given to counteract the effects of a poison (or, formerly, a disease). (Foll. by against, for, to.) LME.
fig. Something which counteracts an evil. (With constructions as sense 1.) M16.
antidotal adjective pertaining to or of the nature of an antidote M17.