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pill
1[pil]
noun
a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured.
Ingratitude is a bitter pill.
Slang.a tiresomely disagreeable person.
Sports Slang.a ball, especially a baseball or golf ball.
the pill. birth-control pill.
British Slang.pills, billiards.
verb (used with object)
to dose with pills.
to form or make into pills.
Slang.to blackball.
verb (used without object)
to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater.
pill
2[pil]
verb (used with or without object)
British Dialect.to peel.
Obsolete.to become or cause to become bald.
pill
3[pil]
verb (used with object)
to rob, plunder, or pillage.
pill
1/ ɪ /
noun
a small spherical or ovoid mass of a medicinal substance, intended to be swallowed whole
informal(sometimes capital) an oral contraceptive
something unpleasant that must be endured (esp in the phrase bitter pill to swallow )
slanga ball or disc
a small ball of matted fibres that forms on the surface of a fabric through rubbing
slangan unpleasant or boring person
verb
(tr) to give pills to
(tr) to make pills of
(intr)
to form into small balls
(of a fabric) to form small balls of fibre on its surface through rubbing
slang(tr) to blackball
pill
2/ ɪ /
verb
archaicto peel or skin (something)
archaicto pillage or plunder (a place)
obsoleteto make or become bald
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Idioms and Phrases
Take a chill pill! chill pill.
Example Sentences
"He promised to secure our borders and unleash American energy dominance, and the One Big Beautiful Bill delivers. The AI regulation moratorium is a poison pill and has no place in this legislation."
A March 2023 search of the unit where the teens overdosed uncovered pills laced with fentanyl and “two large bindles of what appeared to be fentanyl” inside a dormitory, according to the inspector general’s report.
First, he took the entire lot of sleeping pills that his sister, then a medical assistant, had given him to help him sleep.
The amount of medication required to keep me active is so immense, my pills come in gallon jugs and I spend entire Dodger games trying to discreetly swallow them in the press box.
The focus is on the bowels which are "the biggest reservoir of antibiotic resistance in humans" says Dr Blair Merrick, who has been testing the pills at Guys and St Thomas' hospitals.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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