Antivenom vs. Antidote: What's the Difference?
Antivenom and Antidote Definitions
Antivenom
(medicine) A medicine that counteracts venom, an antidote to biological poisons from venomous animals such as snakes and spiders.
Antidote
A remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison.
Antidote
An agent that relieves or counteracts
Jogging as an antidote to nervous tension.
Antidote
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).
Antidote
A remedy to counteract the effects of poison.
She reached the hospital in time to receive the antidote for the snake venom.
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Antidote
(figurative) Something that counteracts or prevents something harmful.
We need an antidote for this misinformation.
Antidote
(transitive) To counteract as an antidote.
Antidote
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.
Antidote
Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.
Antidote
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.
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Antidote
To fortify or preserve by an antidote.
Antidote
A remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
