| antiviral 
 
 any drug that destroys viruses
 • Syn:
 antiviral agent, antiviral drug
 • Hypernyms:
 medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
 • Hyponyms:
 dideoxycytosine, ddC, DDC, zalcitabine, dideoxyinosine,
 ddI, DDI, didanosine, interferon, protease inhibitor, PI,
 reverse transcriptase inhibitor, ribavirin, Virazole
 
 inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses
 
 
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