pill

pill
[[t]pɪ̱l[/t]]
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pills
1) N-COUNT Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow without chewing.

Why do I have to take all these pills?

...sleeping pills.

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2) N-SING: the N If a woman is on the pill, she takes a special pill that prevents her from becoming pregnant.

She had been on the pill for three years.

...the contraceptive pill.

3) PHRASE: N inflects If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news, you can say that it was a bitter pill or a bitter pill to swallow.

You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow.

4) PHRASE: V inflects If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.

He sweetened the pill by increasing wages, although by slightly less than he raised prices.


English dictionary. 2008.

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