pill
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1.0
- noun
- /pɪl/
- The costs for a yearly cycle of pills average about $20 per user.
- take pills
- birth control pills
- contraceptive pill
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Watch on YouTubeBut I mean, you know, pills, opioids, heroin.
- But I mean, you know, pills, opioids, heroin.
- Nothing except the pill when we can get it.
- So you want to snap it like a pill, like a capsule.
- I have to choke down these huge horse pills, Chunky, chunky horse pills.
- But it's still a small pill there.
- My God, how much boner pill spam does Anthony Weiner get?
- And we saw pain pills, pain.
- Psychiatry is the ones doing the pills, not psychology.
- But on route to you having digested these pills, you simply fall asleep.
- And the idea that health is a matter of which pills to take is insane.
- And I don't want to take fiber pills, but I do fiber smoothies.
- Not tea, not coffee, no caffeine pills, no Adderall, nothing.
- This pill, in my opinion, is more than a pill for COVID.
Examples
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The possibility of using birth control pills as morning-after pills is well known to American doctors.
Academic text (1996) -
That's why I take these pills from this doctor I met in Oklahoma.
Fiction book (1990) -
But it's still a small pill there.
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It's cheap, it's a pill, a lot of people are doing it.
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This pill, in my opinion, is more than a pill for COVID.
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Do you need a pill?
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In the early 1960s, the birth control pill became widely available.
Academic text (1999) -
We'll add some sleeping pills to the regimen.
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Take these pills just before you go to bed, I'm sure you're not going to have any trouble at all.
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I always keep a pill in my bag in case I get a headache.
Synonyms
54
2.5
A small solid pill you swallow for medicine
54
2.9
A tablet you take to help you fall asleep
34
2.7
A small medicine tablet with hormones a woman takes to prevent pregnancy
18
1.1
A tablet you take to make body pain less
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4.0
A small solid piece of medicine to swallow
5
4.9
A drug taken to end an early pregnancy without surgery
4
3.6
A pill women take to prevent pregnancy by stopping the release of an egg
3
1.6
A small pill taken to give your body extra vitamins for health
2
3.5
A small pill you take to stop pregnancy
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3.5
A small smooth pill shaped like a capsule that is easy to swallow
1
3.7
A pill taken by mouth that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant
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3.0
A small pill that has many vitamins people take every day
A birth control pill that stops the release of an egg to prevent pregnancy
A pill that stops the release of an egg to prevent pregnancy
Idioms
- Informal
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6.2
Make an unpleasant thing seem easier to accept by adding something pleasant
Compounds
- Specialized
34
2.7
A small medicine tablet with hormones a woman takes to prevent pregnancy
- Jargon
4
7.9
To make it hard for another company to take control by making the company's shares less attractive
- Specialized
2
3.4
A medicine that makes you pass more urine to remove extra water from your body
- Specialized
1
3.7
A pill taken by mouth that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant
- Jargon
1
8.2
A planned action by a company to make itself less attractive to a buyer even if it harms the company
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Etymology
Pill comes from an old Latin word pila meaning 'ball'. It originally meant a small round ball of medicine, which is why a pill is a small tablet you swallow.