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# antidote

«antidote» in Mova's school dictionary: **A medicine or substance that stops a poison from harming you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (antidotes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A medicine or substance that stops a poison from harming you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antidote/#m1)

2) Anything that cures or removes a bad effect, such as a sad feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antidote/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a cure for poison in stories; in talk, something that puts a bad thing right

### examples

- The doctor gave him an antidote for the snake bite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antidote/#x1)
- Mum said a walk is the antidote to boredom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antidote/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «antidote» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/antidote/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.