Pill

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  • noun. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing.
  • noun. An oral contraceptive. Used with the.
  • noun. Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine.
  • noun. Something both distasteful and necessary.
  • noun. An insipid or ill-natured person.
  • intransitive verb. To dose with pills.
  • intransitive verb. To make into pills.
  • intransitive verb. To blackball.
  • intransitive verb. To form small balls resembling pills.
  • intransitive verb. To come off, as in flakes or scales.
  • intransitive verb. To subject to extortion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To rob; plunder; pillage.
  • To rob; practise robbery; plunder.
  • To deprive of hair; make bald. Compare pilled.
  • To peel; strip; form by stripping off the skin or bark.
  • To peel; come off in flakes.
  • noun. Peel; skin; rind; outer covering.
  • noun. The refuse of a hawk's prey.
  • noun. A small creek; one of the channels through which the drainings of a marsh enter a river.
  • To form into pills.
  • To dose with pills.
  • To reject by vote; blackball.
  • noun. A globular or ovoid mass of medicinal substance, of a size convenient for swallowing.
  • noun. Hence Something unpleasant that has to be accepted or (metaphorically) swallowed: usually qualified by bitter.
  • noun. A disagreeable or objectionable person.
  • noun. plural A doctor or surgeon.
  • noun. In varnish-making, the cooked mass of linseed-oil and gum before turpentine is added to thin it down and complete the varnish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of hair; to make bald.
  • transitive verb. To peel; to make by removing the skin.
  • noun. The peel or skin.
  • noun. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
  • noun. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
  • noun. any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax.
  • noun. any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.
  • verb. To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See peel, to plunder.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
  • verb. To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.
  • noun. An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.
  • noun. A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
  • noun. Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill.
  • noun. A comical or entertaining person.
  • noun. A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
  • noun. A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.
  • noun. A baseball.
  • noun. (informal) a bullet (projectile)
  • verb. Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
  • verb. To form into the shape of a pill.
  • verb. To medicate with pills.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
  • Word Usage
    "The half-life of a melatonin pill is short and it doesn't last long; a patch, on the other hand, can deliver small doses throughout its use to keep the levels in the body consistent for a longer, stronger effect."
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    Form
    pilled  pilling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bastille  Belleville  Bill  Brazil  Brill  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Herb  alcohol  beer  bottle  candy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    IUD  SOB  bag  ball  bastard  
    variant
    peel  
    verb-form
    pilled  pilling  pills