PILL


Meaning of PILL in English

(~s)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow without chewing.

Why do I have to take all these ~s?

...sleeping ~s.

= tablet

N-COUNT

2.

If a woman is on the ~, she takes a special ~ that prevents her from becoming pregnant.

She had been on the ~ for three years.

N-SING: the N

3.

If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news, you can say that it was a bitter ~ or a bitter ~ to swallow.

You’re too old to be given a job. That’s a bitter ~ to swallow.

PHRASE: N inflects

4.

If someone does something to sweeten the ~ or sugar the ~, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.

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

PHRASE: V inflects

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