Antidote /(ăn"tĭ*dōt)/
An·ti·dote
Antidote
n.
- A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.
- Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.
Antidote
v. t.
-
To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.
Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins.
- To fortify or preserve by an antidote.