Pill (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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: Ingratitude is a bitter pill.
  3. a tiresomely disagreeable person.
  4. a ball, especially a baseball or golf ball.
  5. birth-control pill.
  6. billiards.
verb (used with object)
  1. to dose with pills.
  2. to form or make into pills.
  3. to blackball.
verb (used without object)
  1. to form into small, pill-like balls, as the fuzz on a wool sweater.
Idioms
  1. chill pill (def. 2).
verb (used with or without object)
  1. to peel.
  2. to become or cause to become bald.
verb (used with object) Archaic.
  1. to rob, plunder, or pillage.
noun
  1. a small spherical or ovoid mass of a medicinal substance, intended to be swallowed whole
  2. an oral contraceptive
  3. something unpleasant that must be endured (esp in the phrase bitter pill to swallow)
  4. a ball or disc
  5. a small ball of matted fibres that forms on the surface of a fabric through rubbing
  6. an unpleasant or boring person
verb
  1. to give pills to
  2. to make pills of
  3. (intr)
    • to form into small balls
    • (of a fabric) to form small balls of fibre on its surface through rubbing
  4. to blackball
verb
  1. to peel or skin (something)
  2. to pillage or plunder (a place)
  3. to make or become bald
Pill (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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