Definitions for antidote

antidote an·ti·dote

Spelling: [an-ti-doht]
IPA: /ˈæn tɪˌdoʊt/

Antidote is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in antidote (adeinott).

Definitions for antidote

noun

  1. a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
  2. something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects:

verb (used with object)

  1. to counteract with an antidote:

Origin of antidote

1400-50; late Middle English (Middle French) Latin antidotum Greek antídoton something given against (i.e., for counteracting), equivalent to anti- anti- + dotón neut

Examples for antidote

You are mistaken about there being an antidote and a poison.

The antidote to both dangers—fireworks and drunk driving—is the same: tighter regulation.

Reformers understood that constructive societal evolution was the antidote to socialist revolution.

“Work is the only antidote,” said the Doctor, not moving his eyes.

Before she slept, I said, he must administer an antidote to Coates's poison.

“Accelerate this process,” said Royce, adding that the Free Syrian Army is the antidote to the ongoing expansion of ISIS in Syria.

Qutb himself did not make the Caliphate central to his thought, but his disciples saw it as the only antidote to jahiliyyah.

Now, where can he find an antidote, who can teach him a healing formula?

I highly doubt that anyone not already in a state of despair would look to war as an antidote to Godlessness.

I only wished that my mother had been present to receive an antidote to Mrs. Coates.

Word Value for antidote
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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