PILL

[noun] [C] - a small solid piece of medicine which a person swallows in one piece; a tableta sleeping pillMy mother swallows/takes a whole load of pills every morning.The pill (or formal a contraceptive pill) is a type of pill which a woman takes regularly, esp. every day, in order to prevent her from becoming pregnant.Are you on the pill?To sweeten/sugar the pill (US also sugar-coat something) is to make something bad seem less unpleasant.Plans to improve public services are seen as a way of sweetening the pill of increased taxation.(informal) Pill-popping is taking pills, esp. when this is a habit or when the pills are illegal drugs.It was after the breakdown of her marriage that her pill-popping started to get out of control.