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单词 counter-agent
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counter-agentn.

Etymology: counter- prefix 2a.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: counter-ˈagent.
A counteracting agent or force; a counteractant.
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the world > action or operation > [noun] > contrary operation or action > that which
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counteractant1884
1821 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater in London Mag. Sept. 295/1 The properties, counteragents, &c. of this drug.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xi. 449 Reverence..the counter-agent to all meanness and selfishness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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