Definition of Counteragent

1. Noun. An agent having the opposite effect; an antidote. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Counteragent

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counteragent

counteraccusations
counteract
counteracted
counteracter
counteracters
counteracting
counteractingly
counteraction
counteractions
counteractive
counteractively
counteractor
counteractors
counteracts
counteradvertising
counteragent (current term)
counteragents
counteraggression
counteraggressions
counterair
counteranion
counteranions
counterappeal
counterappeals
counterargue
counterargued
counterargues
counterarguing
counterargument
counterarguments

Literary usage of Counteragent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1873)
"... acted as a physiological counteragent to the toxic action of physostigma. In other 195 experiments the fatal effect of undoubtedly lethal doses of ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1832)
"After a few trials of the topical treatment by the arsenic, we came to regard it with great confidence, as the best and most certain counteragent of this ..."

3. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America by Bibliographical Society of America (1919)
"... the invention of better protective armor, but, of course, each new invention produces a season of partial chaos while its counteragent is being evolved. ..."

4. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1907)
"... much weaker than natural affection as a counteragent, which, though not obscuring the all- pervasive conflict, yet modifies it into what is known as ..."

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