pill
• noun 1 a small round mass of solid medicine for swallowing whole. 2 (the Pill) a contraceptive pill. • verb (of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface. — PHRASES a bitter pill an unpleasant or painful necessity. sugar (or sweeten) the pill make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable. — ORIGIN Latin pilula ‘little ball’.
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