antidote
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Initiatives like the Stop Killing Games movement may serve as a sort of antidote.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
The four episodes of “Abandoned” offer another gripping antidote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Violet Black, from Edinburgh, Scotland, thinks walking can be a good antidote to isolation and loneliness.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Kara has 72 hours to find the antidote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I’ve got an antidote on call.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Statins, like Lipitor and Zocor, emerged as powerful antidotes starting in the 1980s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
Consuming toxic shellfish can lead to death as there are no known antidotes, according to public health officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
Getting into nature and engaging with your environment is one of the best antidotes.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
American reassurances are the best antidotes to US scepticism, say analysts.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024
Harry pulled out his trusty copy of Advanced Potion-Making and turned to the chapter on antidotes.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been altogether suffocated and choked with these detestable vapours.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
In this and some other respects Emerson is well antidoted by Carlyle, who lays the stress on the opposite qualities, and charges his hero to hold his tongue.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John
As civilization advances the tendency is for the average of life to lengthen, provided life does not grow so complex that knowledge is antidoted by too great artificiality.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.
Poisons of an alkaline nature, such as lye, washing soda, ammonia, etc., are antidoted with vinegar or lemon juice, followed by soothing drinks or sweet oil.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
But hitherto your admirable character has antidoted the poison; the detractor is despised, and every one's indignation raised against him.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel
Ordinary quick-lime, or even plaster from the walls of the house, may be stirred up in water and administered to the sufferer, as both have a distinct value in antidoting the effects of this poison.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
Hunters, warriors, and lovers have occasion to call upon him, and sometimes antidoting charms are sought, when the evil effects of an enemy’s work are to be counteracted.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Hoffman, Walter James
It is no anti-psoric, nor is it capable of antidoting the three miasms, or of inflicting medicinal diseases for life.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.
Mrs. Bloomer replied to Mr. Floyd through the same paper, meeting and refuting every objection, thus in a measure antidoting the poisonous influence of the senator's pronunciamento.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
The mother is constantly antidoting and neutralizing the child's little troubles and discords by giving the opposite thought and applying the love-elixir.
From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett
Vocabulary lists containing antidote
Power Prefix: Anti
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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