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

She approaches the net with her son Ian Foon, 4, and readies the racket to swat away water balloons — a perfect antidote to a hot summer day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Initiatives like the Stop Killing Games movement may serve as a sort of antidote.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

A. I find that the best antidote to gloom is a chat with somebody who’s both a visionary and highly practical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

And obediently, Dumbledore drank, as though it was an antidote Harry offered him, but upon draining the goblet, he sank to his knees, shaking uncontrollably.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

For the past five years, The Liana Trust has been studying venoms from species beyond the big four to develop antidotes to them.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

As blood-stirring antidotes go, it’s a good one.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

Consider these exhibits aesthetic antidotes for the winter blues.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

If they got the answer wrong...Even with antidotes on hand, it would be unpleasant.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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 William S. Sadler

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

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

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 Samuel Richardson

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 Peter Anthony Motteux

Quia, though some water come out from thence, there never goes in any; for it is well antidoted with pot-proof armour and syrup of the vine-leaf.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

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 H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris

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 Orison Swett Marden

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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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 Walter James Hoffman

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 C. W. Wolf