DAILY VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. PILL.

pill

• pill
• 1 [countable] a small solid piece of medicine that you swallow whole:
• He has to take pills to control his blood pressure.
• sleeping pills
• a bottle of vitamin pills
• 2

   the Pill/the pill

  a pill taken regularly by some women in order to prevent them having babies
• on the Pill
• My doctor advised me to go on the pill (=start taking it regularly).
• 3

   sugar/sweeten the pill

  to do something to make an unpleasant job or situation less unpleasant for the person who has to accept it
• 4

   be a pill

  American English informal if someone, especially a child, is a pill, they are annoying:
• Luke can be a real pill sometimes.

• ➔ a bitter pill (to swallow)

   at bitter1 (7), morning-after pill

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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