antidote

An antidote to August ennui: When Byard Duncan began to feel the creep of a midlife crisis, he realized that desperate times call for farcical measures.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

His oath does not seem enough of an antidote against his cleverness.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Statins, like Lipitor and Zocor, emerged as powerful antidotes starting in the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

Miller’s view is up close and personal, providing the reader with private antidotes while examining her poems and correlating them to geopolitical issues.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

American reassurances are the best antidotes to US scepticism, say analysts.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024

Consider these exhibits aesthetic antidotes for the winter blues.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

Staring nastily around at them all, he informed them that he would be testing them on poison antidotes during the last lesson of the term.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Remember that carbolic acid is not an acid, and is not antidoted with alkalines.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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)

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