26984 words

pill

6 definitions • 8 examples
1
a small solid piece of medicine that a person swallows without chewing (= crushing with the teeth):

Examples:

a sleeping pill
a vitamin pill
My mother takes three or four pills a day.
Jamie's always had trouble swallowing pills.
2
a type of pill for women that is taken every day in order to prevent them from becoming pregnant:

Examples:

Are you on the pill?
3
an annoying person:

Examples:

Jennifer was being such a pill today.
4
a small ball of threads that develops on the surface of clothes or material:

Examples:

She sat there sulking and picking the pills off her sweater.
6
a small, solid substance that a person swallows whole, esp. as medicine:

Examples:

a sleeping pill

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