counterirritate

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English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ irritate.

Verb

counterirritate (third-person singular simple present counterirritates, present participle counterirritating, simple past and past participle counterirritated)

  1. (medicine) To produce an opposite irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for counterirritate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)