Pill - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet (syn: lozenge, tab, tablet)
- a unpleasant or tiresome person
- something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
Extra examples
She took a pill for her headache.
The drug is available as a pill or a liquid.
Getting up that hill at night is the pill.
Those pills you smoke are terrible.
Many candidates were pilled.
I put some sheep in to pill the field.
He has to take pills to control his blood pressure.
I took a pill to relieve my headache.
The drug is more easily ingested in pill form.
Take one pill at mealtime.
I took a pill to help settle my nerves.
The knowledge that his friends no longer trusted him was a bitter pill to swallow.
The pill is a popular method of contraception.
The contraceptive pill gave women freedom from the fear of pregnancy.
My doctor advised me to go on the pill (=start taking it regularly).
Word forms
singular: pill
plural: pills
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