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Can skincare in a pill make you look younger?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then we take a chill pill for a second and we just listen.
The Sun (2016)
To sugar the pill, give recent stamp duty payers a tax holiday for a few years.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It's a bitter pill to swallow.
The Sun (2016)
There were pink pills and blue pills.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The printer leaves regular air gaps in the construction to give the pill its highly porous structure.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Would you trust a pill to make you smart?
The Sun (2008)
Sleeping pills tumbled onto the bed and the floor.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Maybe the kind of people who take sleeping pills are more likely to have other problems.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
What is the best time to take pills for heartburn?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He is no longer making pill cabinets or medicine cabinets or any kind of cabinets.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Then he must have swallowed the red pill.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Why does only one side have to swallow the bitter pill of forgive and forget?
The Sun (2014)
No need for the little blue pills.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So did the pills give you these odd ills?
The Sun (2015)
There is no secret sauce or magic pill that will make a church grow or prosper.
Christianity Today (2000)
Sleeping pills should be a last resort.
Munro, Bill Dr. & Munro, Frances Beat Stress (1992)
He takes pills to make himself look ill and old.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Is there a better pill to swallow for pain?
The Sun (2010)
Fifty years ago people thought by now we would be eating all our food in powder or pill form.
The Sun (2013)
The next morning he coldly told her to buy the morning-after pill.
The Sun (2012)
A sugar pill is a pill with no medicine at all in it.
Dylan Evans PLACEBO: The Belief Effect (2003)
Large pills become small ones.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
By, for example, measuring how your arm length changes when pills are placed by your body.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In other languages
pill
British English: pill /pɪl/ NOUN
Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow.
Why do I have to take all these pills?
American English: pill
Arabic: حَبَّةُ دَوَاء
Brazilian Portuguese: comprimido
Chinese: 药丸
Croatian: pilula
Czech: pilulka
Danish: pille
Dutch: pil
European Spanish: pastilla
Finnish: pilleri
French: pilule
German: Pille
Greek: χάπι
Italian: compressa
Japanese: 丸薬
Korean: 알약
Norwegian: pille
Polish: pigułka
European Portuguese: comprimido
Romanian: pastilă
Russian: пилюля
Latin American Spanish: pastilla
Swedish: piller
Thai: ยา
Turkish: hap
Ukrainian: пігулка
Vietnamese: viên thuốc
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All related terms of 'pill'
anti-pill
denoting a material that does not form pills or that resists pilling
diet pill
a pill that is intended to help slimmers lose weight
pep pill
a tablet containing a stimulant drug
pill bug
any of various woodlice of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, capable of rolling up into a ball when disturbed
the pill
an oral contraceptive
birth pill
a pill which prevents a woman from conceiving
bitter pill
a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow )
chill pill
an imaginary medicinal pill with a calming , relaxing effect
pill beetle
a very common beetle , Byrrhus pilula , typical of the family Byrrhidae, that can feign death by withdrawing legs and antennae into grooves underneath the oval body
pill bottle
a small bottle that pills are kept in
pill popper
a person who habitually takes drugs in the form of pills
pill pusher
a medical doctor , esp. one who too readily prescribes medication
poison pill
A poison pill refers to what some companies do to reduce their value in order to prevent themselves being taken over by another company.
water pill
a diuretic pill
abortion pill
a drug, such as mifepristone , used to terminate a pregnancy in its earliest stage
sleeping pill
A sleeping pill is a pill that you can take to help you sleep.
vitamin pill
a tablet containing a vitamin or vitamins
sugar the pill
to try to make bad news or an unpleasant situation more acceptable for someone by giving them or telling them something good or pleasant at the same time
pillbox
A pillbox is a small tin or box in which you can keep pills.
birth-control pill
an oral contraceptive for women, containing the hormones estrogen and progesterone or progesterone alone , that inhibits ovulation, fertilization , or implantation of a fertilized ovum , causing temporary infertility
morning-after pill
The morning-after pill is a pill that a woman can take some hours after having sex to prevent herself from becoming pregnant .
sweeten the pill to sugar the pill
If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill , they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable .
travel-sickness pill
a pill which is used to relieve the symptoms of travel or motion sickness , the condition of being nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
swallow a bitter pill
to accept a difficult or unpleasant fact or situation
fertility drug
any of a group of preparations used to stimulate ovulation in women hitherto infertile
a bitter pill to swallow
a difficult or unpleasant fact or situation that has to be accepted
a bitter pill be a bitter pill for sb a bitter pill to swallow
If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news , you can say that it was a bitter pill or a bitter pill to swallow .
Chinese translation of 'pill'
pill
(pɪl)
n(c)
药(藥)丸 (yàowán) (粒, lì)
the pill (= contraceptive pill) 避孕药(藥) (bìyùnyào)
to be on the pill服避孕药(藥) (fú bìyùnyào)
(noun)
Definition
a small mass of medicine intended to be swallowed whole
a sleeping pill
Synonyms
tablet
It's not a good idea to take sleeping tablets regularly.
capsule
You can also take red ginseng in convenient capsule form.
pellet
bolus
pilule
idiom
See a bitter pill (to swallow)
Additional synonyms
in the sense of capsule
Definition
a soluble gelatine case containing a dose of medicine
You can also take red ginseng in convenient capsule form.