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n. A substance, such as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by or derived from certain fungi, bacteria, and other organisms, that can destroy or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. Antibiotics are widely used in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

adj. Of or relating to antibiotics.

adj. Of or relating to antibiosis.

adj. Destroying life or preventing the inception or continuance of life.

n. Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms.

adj. Of or relating to antibiotics.

n. A chemical substance derived from a mold or bacterium that kills microorganisms and cures infections.

n. any chemical substance having therapeutically useful antibacterial or antifungal activity; -- used commonly but loosely for synthetic as well as natural antimicrobial agents.

adj. of or pertaining to an antibiotic.

adj. having antimicrobial activity; capable of killing microbes.

Opposed to a belief in the presence or possibility of life.

In biology, injurious or deadly to the living substance: as, an antibiotic secretion.

n. a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections

adj. of or relating to antibiotic drugs

"The company's news, better than the market expected, was overshadowed by Smithfield's part in another story: The Russian Federation banned imports of pork from more U.S. plants because of what it called antibiotic contamination."

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