单词 | pill |
释义 | pill 1 ![]() n. 1. A small pellet or tablet of medicine, often coated, taken by swallowing whole or by chewing. 2. Informal An oral contraceptive. Used with the. 3. Slang Something, such as a baseball, that resembles a pellet of medicine. 4. Something both distasteful and necessary. 5. Slang An insipid or ill-natured person. v. pilled, pil·ling, pills v.tr. 1. To dose with pills. 2. To make into pills. 3. Slang To blackball. v.intr. To form small balls resembling pills: a sweater that pills. [Middle English pille, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German pille and Old French pile, all from Latin pilula, diminutive of pila, ball; see PELLET.] |
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