1. A remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison. 2. An agent that relieves or counteracts: jogging as an antidote to nervous tension.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: an·ti·dot·ed, an·ti·dot·ing, an·ti·dotes To relieve or counteract with an antidote: “Hallie's family life is laced with the poison of self-hatred, a poison that Sam has antidoted with love and understanding“ (Christopher Swan, Christian Science Monitor November 10, 1983).
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Latin antidotum, from Greek antidoton, from antididonai, antido-, to give as a remedy against : anti-, anti- + didonai, to give; see d- in Appendix I.
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