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Definition of 'Pill' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pill
a small tablet or capsule of medicine, usu. designed to be swallowed whole or dissolved in the mouth.

2.  pill
something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured.

3.  pill
Slang. a tiresomely disagreeable person.

4.  pill
Slang. a ball, esp. a baseball or golf ball.

5.  pill
the pill, (sometimes cap.)

6. (v.t.) pill
to form or make into pills.

7.  pill
Slang. to blackball.

8. (v.i.) pill
to develop small, pill-like balls of fuzz on the surface, as a wool sweater.

Etymology:  (1375–1425; late ME pille < MLG, MD pille&indirdesc; L pilula, dim. of pila ball; see -ule)

Definition of 'Pill' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) pill
something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size

2. (noun) pill, lozenge, tablet, tab
a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

3. (noun) pill
a unpleasant or tiresome person

4. (noun) pill
something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
"his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take"

5. (noun) pill, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, anovulatory drug, anovulant
a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception


Definition of 'Pill' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) pill
a piece of solid medicine to be swallowed
vitamin pills; Take two pills every morning.


Definition of 'Pill' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Pill
the peel or skin

2. (noun) Pill
a medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole

3. (noun) Pill
figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured

4.  Pill
to rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder

5. (verb) Pill
to be peeled; to peel off in flakes

6. (verb) Pill
to deprive of hair; to make bald

7. (verb) Pill
to peel; to make by removing the skin


Translation of 'Pill' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a small ball or tablet of medicine, to be swallowed
She took a pill; sleeping-pills.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: pil Arabic flag Arabic: قُرْص، حَبَّة دَواء Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: хап
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pílula Czech flag Czech: pilulka German flag German: die Pille
Danish flag Danish: pille; -pille; tablet; -t Greek flag Greek: χάπι Spanish flag Spanish: píldora, pastilla
Estonian flag Estonian: pill Farsi flag Farsi: قرص Finnish flag Finnish: pilleri
French flag French: pilule Hebrew flag Hebrew: גְלולָה Hindi flag Hindi: गोली
Croatian flag Croatian: pilula Hungarian flag Hungarian: pirula Indonesian flag Indonesian: pil
Icelandic flag Icelandic: (lyfja)pilla Italian flag Italian: pillola Japanese flag Japanese: 錠剤
Korean flag Korean: 알약 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: piliulė Latvian flag Latvian: tablete; zāļu dražeja
Malay flag Malay: pil Dutch flag Dutch: pil Norwegian flag Norwegian: pille
Polish flag Polish: pastylka Persian flag Persian: قرص Pashto flag Pashto: ددارو ګولى، ګولى، مرد كى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: pílula Romanian flag Romanian: pilulă Russian flag Russian: пилюля, таблетка
Slovak flag Slovak: pilulka Slovenian flag Slovenian: pilula Serbian flag Serbian: pilula
Swedish flag Swedish: piller Thai flag Thai: ยาเม็ด Turkish flag Turkish: hap
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 藥丸 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: пігулка Urdu flag Urdu: دوا کي گولي
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: viên thuốc Chinese flag Chinese: 药丸

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