to pill
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9.3
- verb
- /pɪl/
- Specialized
Examples
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If the only thing we're doing is pill counts, we don't find out for a year.
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We have policies that pill mills don't even care about.
Blog text (4) -
After a very interesting conversation with some girls from school, I realized that many people still consider emergency contraception or the morning-after pill an abortive pill.
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The pharmacist will pill the medicine into small tablets for patients to take easily.
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To prepare the treatment, the technician will pill the herbal mixture into uniform capsules.
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The company aims to pill the new vitamin formulation to enhance consumer convenience.
Synonyms
1
8.1
To press powder into small medicine pills
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb pill comes from the noun and from old pila 'ball'; to pill means to shape medicine into small 'balls' or tablets, so the verb names the action of making pills.