transcription, транскрипция: [ pɪl ]
( pills)
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 pills?
...sleeping pills.
= tablet
N-COUNT
2.
If a woman is on the pill , she takes a special pill that prevents her from becoming pregnant.
She had been on the pill 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 pill or a bitter pill to swallow .
You’re too old to be given a job. That’s a bitter pill to swallow.
PHRASE : N inflects
4.
If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill , they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
He sweetened the pill by increasing wages, although by slightly less than he raised prices.
PHRASE : V inflects