pain pill
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1.1
- noun
- /peɪn pɪl/
- US
:
analgésico
- I took a pain pill to help with my headache.
- a prescription pain pill
It makes it more dangerous, not less to crack down on pain pills.
- It makes it more dangerous, not less to crack down on pain pills.
- And so you say, OK, well, you know, there's plenty of people in real pain who need pain pills.
- And again, the fentanyl heroin drug market now bogus fake pain pills coming out of China also coming into the US, right.
- He lost lots of drugs, pain pills, why I don't do drugs.
- So I was physically addicted to prescribe pain pain pills.
- So, so we would, we wouldn't hand out so many pain, pain pills.
- They put them pillows and blankets in there and I had these great big pain pills and I've been must have been not feeling no pain at all.
Examples
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How often have you counted your pain pills to see how many are remaining?
Blog text (34) -
Those are pain pills.
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At least take a pain pill.
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I need some pain pills.
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- How many pain pills did you take?
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I am taking 6 to 10 pain pills a day just to be able to work.
Blog text (14) -
Day begins at four A.M. when pain pills wear off.
Fiction book (1996) -
And I'm very careful with the pain pills.
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My husband backed off his tone; I took some pain pills and made myself calm down.
Blog text (14) -
My ribs were hurting like mad despite my pain pills, but I wouldn't have been able to sleep anyway.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
103
2.6
Medicine you take to reduce pain
36
6.8
A brand name for a prescription pain medicine containing hydrocodone and acetaminophen for strong pain
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3.2
A medicine that eases pain, reduces swelling, and lowers fever
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5.5
A medicine that reduces pain without putting you to sleep
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8.6
A medicine that relieves pain
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pill taken to relieve physical pain' is directly derivable from combining 'pain' (bodily hurt) with 'pill' (a small tablet); it denotes the pill's purpose and is fully compositional. This straightforward symptom+medication compound is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English noun-compounding, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Pain pill comes from putting together pain and pill, so you can picture a small tablet you swallow to stop an ache. That's why it means 'a pill that relieves pain'.