Definition of counteract

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Counteract (v. t.) To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice..

Lern More About Counteract

Negative :: Negative (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
Antiseptical :: Antiseptical (a.) Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive..
Control :: Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Balance :: Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize..
Corrective :: Corrective (n.) That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct..
Alexipharmical :: Alexipharmical (a.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.
Efficacy :: Efficacy (n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer..
Antidote :: Antidote (n.) 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..
Antinephritic :: Antinephritic (a.) Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys..
Antidotal :: Antidotal (a.) Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.
Antalkaline :: Antalkaline (a.) Of power to counteract alkalies.
Antihysteric :: Antihysteric (a.) Counteracting hysteria.
Antibillous :: Antibillous (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
Remedy :: Remedy (n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
Antidote :: Antidote (n.) Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce..
Counteractibely :: Counteractibely (adv.) By counteraction.
Counteraction :: Counteraction (n.) Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
Antiphlogistic :: Antiphlogistic (a.) Counteracting inflammation.
Antarthritic :: Antarthritic (a.) Counteracting or alleviating gout.
Antagonize :: Antagonize (v. t.) To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
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