Definitions for pill

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pill pill

Spelling: [pil]

IPA: /pɪl/

Pill is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in pill (illp).

Definitions for pill

noun

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:
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.

Idioms

1. Take a chill pill!, Disparaging Slang. chill pill (def 2).

verb (used with object)

1. to dose with pills.
2. to form or make into pills.
3. Slang. to blackball.
4. to rob, plunder, or pillage.

verb (used without object)

1. to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater. Compare depill.

verb (used with or without object)

1. British Dialect. to peel.
2. Obsolete. to become or cause to become bald.

Origin of pill

1375-1425; late Middle English pille Middle Low German, Middle Dutch pille ≪ Latin pilula, diminutive of pila ball; see -ule

Examples for pill

If there were a pill with such poor efficacy, it might be considered malpractice to prescribe it.

There was no answer, and she asked again, "Bob, did you 'pill your berries?"

He wished to have the time to make Dubois swallow this pill.

You've always had speed and curves, but now you seem able to get the pill over.

Florida, which began a pill mill crackdown in 2010, saw a 50 percent decrease in overdose deaths from oxycodone in 2012.

Some of that power ought to emanate from him with every pill and drug which he prescribes.

A pill that can give women control over their bodies and sexual choice is coming under criticism for encouraging risky behavior.

We figured the percentage on the basis of the pill Frank swiped.

So far, research shows that none of these fears have been born out with The pill or with Truvada.

“I could have taken the pill, but I wanted to do the one that women were most afraid of,” she told Cosmo.