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Type Words
Synonyms anovulant, anovulatory drug, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, oral contraceptive pill
Type of prophylactic device, birth control device, preventive, preventative, contraceptive, contraceptive device
Has types modicon, demulen, enovid, lo/ovral, loestrin, micronor, nor-q-d, norinyl, norlestrin, ovocon, ovral, ovrette, ovulen
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Synonyms lozenge, tab, tablet
Type of dose, dosage
Has types sleeping tablet, bolus, sleeping capsule, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, dragee, capsule
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Type of disagreeable person, unpleasant person
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Type of thing
Has types vitamin pill
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Type of incumbrance, onus, burden, load, encumbrance


his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take.

Examples of pill

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Rick reminds us to numb your pain, Florida pill mills remain open and anonymous.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The Legislature approved the database in 2009 as the pill mill problem worsened.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Not sure if that would work for everyone, but it was alot cheaper than ANY pill.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Fakes can be produced for less than a penny a pill and sold for around 30 cents.
From the businessweek.com
When you wake you'll find a yellow pill on a spoon beside a glass of soda water.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Anyway, the All Blacks have the pill and they're off in search of another score.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The volunteers, who had an average age of 51, took a pill once a day for a year.
From the dailymail.co.uk
If this result was a pill would it be approved if it barely made any difference?
From the independent.co.uk
A pill doesn't teach these skills, neither does yoga, but as an educator, I can.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
  • A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
  • A unpleasant or tiresome person
  • Something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured; "his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take"
  • A contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
  • A pill is a small, round, solid pharmacological oral dosage form that was in use before the advent of tablets and capsules. ...
  • Tyrone Rivers, better known by his stage name Pill, is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia.
  • A pill, colloquially known as a bobble, is a small ball of fibres that forms on a piece of cloth from wear. Pill is also a verb for the formation of such balls."Pill." The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989.
  • The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth-control pill or simply "the Pill", is a birth control method that includes a combination of an estrogen (oestrogen) and a progestin (progestogen). When taken by mouth every day, these pills inhibit female fertility. ...