Word Meanings - ANTISCORBUTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Related words: (words related to ANTISCORBUTIC)

• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COUNTERACT
  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.
• SCURVY
  1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy
• COUNTERACTIVELY
  By counteraction.
• COUNTERACTION
  Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.