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antidote (AN ti doht") (s), antidotes (pl) (nouns)
1. A remedy, remedies, or other agents used to neutralize or to counteract the effects of a poison.
2. An agent that relieves or counteracts; such as, "jogging as an antidote to nervous tension."
3. Etymology: from Middle English, from Latin antidotum, which came from Greek antidoton, from antididonai, antido-, "to give as a remedy against"; from Latin anti- + Latin didonai, "to give").
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