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antidote
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Antidote were a punk band from the Netherlands . The band formed in 1996 and has released several records. The band has toured extensively in Europe, North America and Russia. In December 2012, the band officially announced their break-up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antidote \An"ti*dote\ ([a^]n"t[i^]*d[=o]t), n. [L. antidotum, Gr. 'anti`doton (sc. fa`rmakon), fr. 'anti`dotos given against; 'anti` against + dido`nai to give: cf. F. antidote. See Dose , n.] A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison [syn: counterpoison ]
Usage examples of antidote.
Foucault thus proposes the sexuo-linguistic theory of Jean-Pierre Brisset as an antidote to the anthropocentric structuralisms of Saussure, Lacan, and Chomsky.
Every hour of school labor illustrates the value of apperception and teachers should find in it a constant antidote to faulty methods.
Torres, raising the two containers of hummel antidote he was carrying.
His mother now knew nearly as much as Locusta, and had been adding antidotes to her diet for months.
Nevertheless I had read in popular medical books that intercourse is the supreme antidote to masturbation and I decided to try normal intercourse with a young woman to get rid of my new tendencies.
If it follows Galen, then it prescribes theriac as an antidote and recommends bloodletting to balance the humors.
Order of Resonance came next into the dark room to bleed, and from them the interrogators extracted the details of plans to free the Warreners, and copious information about their search for an antidote to the addictive poisons in Wayfare, and the ways that they subverted art to bring others around to their cause.
Lady Appleton, what antidotes do you recommend should one be accidentally poisoned?
But he also thought about his wife, and taking a hypodermic needle from the table, he injected himself with the exact quantity of venom he would have received from the stings of five toxic bees - the maximum the antidote could suppress without causing blindness.
For generations Benedictinism was the principal antidote to barbarism.
Jamie took several deep breaths, trying to maintain a sense of annoyance with Ian as an antidote to the anxiety that wrapped itself round his chest like a snake.
Jason called Reamond first for a report on the Bridgeman business and the results obtained in the case of the diluted antidote.
Being Finnish and with suicide being so common in that country that they teach antidote administration at junior school, she immediately knocked the bottle out of his hand and poured bottle after bottle of Evian down him till the paramedics came.
Walking, stumbling, sidling, Janice felt herself drowning as she pushed through wee mad clusters along the western shore of Jabberwocky, hysteria rising, building, surging until screaming became the only possible antidote.
And all a Malkite poisoner does to get around tasters is dose them with an antidote beforehand.