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Meaning of word side effect from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

Meaning : A secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy.

Example : Severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug.

Meaning : Any adverse and unwanted secondary effect.

Example : A strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal.

Synonyms : fallout

demolish (verb)
Destroy completely.

dispose (verb)
Give, sell, or transfer to another.

ordnance store (noun)
Military supplies.

precursor (noun)
A substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction).

guff (noun)
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements).

cockroach (noun)
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects. Some are domestic pests.

telescope (verb)
Crush together or collapse.

with child (adjective)
In an advanced stage of pregnancy.

blow up (verb)
Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.

most (adjective)
(superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number.