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pill
1[ pil ]
noun
- a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- something unpleasant that has to be accepted or endured:
Ingratitude is a bitter pill.
- Slang. a tiresomely disagreeable person.
- Sports Slang. a ball, especially a baseball or golf ball.
- the pill. birth-control pill.
- pills, British Slang. billiards.
verb (used with object)
- to dose with pills.
- to form or make into pills.
- Slang. to blackball.
verb (used without object)
- to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater. Compare depill.
pill
2[ pil ]
verb (used with or without object)
- British Dialect. to peel.
- Obsolete. to become or cause to become bald.
pill
3[ pil ]
verb (used with object)
- to rob, plunder, or pillage.
pill
1/ 辫瑟濒 /
noun
- a small spherical or ovoid mass of a medicinal substance, intended to be swallowed whole
- the pill informal.sometimes capital an oral contraceptive
- something unpleasant that must be endured (esp in the phrase bitter pill to swallow )
- slang.a ball or disc
- a small ball of matted fibres that forms on the surface of a fabric through rubbing
- slang.an unpleasant or boring person
verb
- tr to give pills to
- tr to make pills of
- intr
- to form into small balls
- (of a fabric) to form small balls of fibre on its surface through rubbing
- slang.tr to blackball
pill
2/ 辫瑟濒 /
verb
- archaic.to peel or skin (something)
- archaic.to pillage or plunder (a place)
- obsolete.to make or become bald
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pill1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pill1
Origin of pill2
Idioms and Phrases
- Take a chill pill! Disparaging Slang. chill pill ( def 2 ).
More idioms and phrases containing pill
see bitter pill to swallow ; sugar the pill .Example Sentences
A new daily pill treating endometriosis has been approved for use on the NHS in England.
Which is, politically, a difficult pill to swallow when you've been the ultimate goal of the entire system for 50 years, but this is how economics used to be.
My parents, now retired in Brazil, had me bring various things from L.A.: headphones, soft toothbrushes, hair dryers, sleeping pills, heating pads, slippers, nasal sprays, art books, cashmere sweaters.
Getting swept away by a fantasy world is one of moviegoing鈥檚 more rarefied pleasures, disbelief dissolving as readily as a pill on the tongue.
The new pill was equally effective for treating gonorrhoea and worked against strains of the infection that were resistant to current first-line treatments, such as ceftriaxone.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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