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pill

noun as in capsule of medicine

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noun as in person who is annoying

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Sometimes you swallow pills you don’t like to get things done.

Body temperature can be monitored through smart pills but also through wearables put on the skin.

He gave her 10 pills each day, in addition to a few liquid medications.

They take the pills for 15 days and log symptoms on a web-based platform.

Maybe 15 or 20 percent of lung cancers in the United States are targeted by these pills that are quite effective and not very toxic.

For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

“He gave me a blue pill, which he said was an antihistamine,” said Chelan.

Medication can now be taken in a single pill rather than a complex cocktail of tablets.

A plastic surgeon gave her a supposedly lethal pill that also failed.

For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.

However cleverly the pill was gilded, the Marshal knew that it was the Emperor's distrust which had lost him the command.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Thence to my office, and after several letters writ, home to supper and to bed, and took a pill.

That was a good initial effort, running down the opium pill mail-order enterprise.

But on setting down the cup his eye caught sight of the pill-box.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pill, such as: dose, medicine, tablet, bolus, lozenge, and pellet.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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