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Definitions for Pill

[1] a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
[2] something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured: Ingratitude is a bitter pill.
[3] Slang . a tiresomely disagreeable person.
[4] Sports Slang . a ball, especially a baseball or golf ball.
[5] the pill. birth-control pill.
[6] pills, British Slang . billiards.
[7] to dose with pills.
[8] to form or make into pills.
[9] Slang . to blackball.
[10] to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater. Compare depill.
[11] Take a chill pill! Disparaging Slang . chill pill(def 2) .
[12] British Dialect . to peel.
[13] Obsolete . to become or cause to become bald.
[14] to rob, plunder, or pillage.
[15] a small spherical or ovoid mass of a medicinal substance, intended to be swallowed whole
[16] the pill (sometimes capital) informal an oral contraceptive
[17] something unpleasant that must be endured (esp in the phrase bitter pill to swallow )
[18] slang a ball or disc
[19] a small ball of matted fibres that forms on the surface of a fabric through rubbing
[20] slang an unpleasant or boring person
[21] (tr) to give pills to
[22] (tr) to make pills of
[23] (intr) to form into small balls (of a fabric) to form small balls of fibre on its surface through rubbing
[24] (tr) slang to blackball
[25] archaic , or dialect to peel or skin (something)
[26] archaic to pillage or plunder (a place)
[27] obsolete to make or become bald

Words related to Pill

medicine, tablet, dose, lozenge, pellet, bolus, troche, pain, trial, drag, pest, nuisance, bore, pilule

Words nearby Pill

piliferous, piliform, pilikia, piling, pilipino, pill, pill beetle, pill bug, pill popper, pill pusher, pill-rolling

Origin of Pill

31150–1200; Middle English; probably conflation of pill2 with Middle French piller (see pillage)

Word origin for Pill

Old English pilian, from Latin pilāre to strip

Synonyms for Pill

dose, medicine, tablet, bolus, lozenge, pellet, troche, pilule