Pill Pɪl Doctor Unpleasant Middle Noun Bre Vitamin

• a vitamin pill
• take three pills daily after meals.
• pill-popping (= the act of taking too many pills or using illegal drugs)
• the doctor prescribed her some pills to help her sleep.

pill

1. a small flat round piece of medicine that you swallow without chewing it
• see also pep pill
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/pep-pill
• a vitamin pill
• Take three pills daily after meals.
• pill-popping (= the act of taking too many pills or using illegal drugs)
• The doctor prescribed her some pills to help her sleep.
2. a pill that some women take to prevent them becoming pregnant
• see also morning-after pill
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/morning-after-pill
• the contraceptive pill
• to be/go on the pill
• Her doctor put her on the pill at 16.
3. an annoying person
4. a fact or an event that is unpleasant and difficult to accept
• The election defeat was a bitter pill for the party to swallow.
5. to do something that makes an unpleasant situation seem less unpleasant
• synonym sugar-coat
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sugar-coat

Word Origin

• noun late Middle English: ultimately from Latin pilula ‘little ball’, diminutive of pila; compare with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pille.