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Pill meaning in English

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Pill

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Noun

1. pill

something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size

2. lozenge, pill, tab, tablet

a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

3. pill

a unpleasant or tiresome person

4. pill

something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured

Example Sentences:
'his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take'

5. anovulant, anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill, pill

a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Pill

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noun
1. 
a small spherical or ovoid mass of a medicinal substance, intended to be swallowed whole
2.  the pill
3. 
something unpleasant that must be endured (esp in the phrase bitter pill to swallow)
4. slang
a ball or disc
5. 
a small ball of matted fibres that forms on the surface of a fabric through rubbing
6. slang
an unpleasant or boring person
verb
7. (transitive)
to give pills to
8. (transitive)
to make pills of
9. (intransitive)
a. 
to form into small balls
b. 
(of a fabric) to form small balls of fibre on its surface through rubbing
10. (transitive) slang
to blackball
verb
1. archaic or dialect
to peel or skin (something)
2. archaic
to pillage or plunder (a place)
3. obsolete
to make or become bald

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Pill

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noun
1. 
a small ball, tablet, capsule, etc. of medicine to be swallowed whole
2. 
anything unpleasant but unavoidable
3. 
a. 
something like a pill in shape
b.  Slang
a baseball, golf ball, etc.
4.  Slang
an unpleasant or boring person
verb transitive
5. 
to dose with pills
6. 
to form into pills
7.  Slang
to blackball
verb intransitive
8. 
to form into small balls, as fuzz on a fabric
verb transitive, verb intransitive
1.  Archaic
to pillage; plunder
2.  Chiefly British, Dialectal
to peel

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Pill

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n.
1. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.
2. Informal An oral contraceptive. Used with the.
3. Slang Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine.
4. Something both distasteful and necessary.
5. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person.
v. pilled, pil·ling, pills
v.tr.
1. To dose with pills.
2. To make into pills.
3. Slang To blackball.
v.intr.
To form small balls resembling pills: a sweater that pills.
v. pilled, pil·ling, pills
v.intr.
Chiefly British
To come off, as in flakes or scales.
v.tr.
Archaic
To subject to extortion.

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