pill /pɪl/ verb [I] US (UK bobble) ↑Verb Endings for pill
► F0 If a piece of clothing or material pills, it develops small balls of threads on its surface.Thesaurus+: ↑General words for textiles pill /pɪl/ noun [C] (MEDICINE)
B1 a small solid piece of medicine that a person swallows without chewing (= crushing with the teeth):
» a sleeping pill» a vitamin pill» My mother takes three or four pills a day.» Jamie's always had trouble swallowing pills.See picture: tablet/pill 
Thesaurus+: ↑Medicine in different formsthe pill
F0 a type of pill for women that is taken every day in order to prevent them from becoming pregnant:
» Are you on the pill?Thesaurus+: ↑Contraception• • •
Extra Examples:» The new pill will be used alongside existing medicines.» These pills I've been taking have done nothing for me.» The doctor prescribed some pills.» Dad's always forgetting to take his pills.» When he was 17 he took an overdose of sleeping pills and nearly died. pill /pɪl/ noun [C] US (UK bobble) (ON CLOTHING)
► F0 a small ball of threads that develops on the surface of clothes or material: » She sat there sulking and picking the pills off her sweater.Thesaurus+: ↑General words for textiles pill /pɪl/ noun [C] US (PERSON)
► F0 an annoying person: » Jennifer was being such a pill today.Thesaurus+: ↑Unpleasant people in general , ↑Unpleasant men- ↑Dry weather, arid conditions and dryness
- ↑Ducks, geese and game birds
- ↑Duty, obligation and responsibility
- ↑Early
- ↑Earning money and money earned
- ↑Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
- ↑Easiness and simplicity
- ↑Easy to understand
- better off
- betters
- better safe than sorry
- better still
- better the devil you know
- better the devil you know (than the devil you don't)
- better the devil you know than the devil you don't
- better yourself
- betting
- betting shop
- be tucked
- be tucked (away)
- be tucked away
- be tuned in
- between
- between times
- between you and me