Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "pill" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

bottle cabinet jar medicine bottle medicine cabinet old ladies purse pharmacy pill bottle purse

Capable Of

coat with sugar

Coordinate Terms

capsule

Derived Terms

Blackpill Matthew's pill Ward's pill abortion pill antipill birth pill bitter pill bitter pill to swallow black pill black-pill blue pill blue-pill boner pill bread pill chicken pill chill pill difficult pill to swallow dinner pill dogpill forget to take one's pills this morning gild the pill go pill happy pill hard pill hard pill to swallow horse pill little blue pill love pill minipill morning-after pill nanopill no-go pill on the pill orange pill party pill peace pill peaceful pill pep pill perpetual pill pill beetle pill board pill bottle pill bug pill driver pill gun pill in the pocket pill mill pill millipede pill pocket pill popper pill press pill pusher pill reminder pill rolling pill tile pill to swallow pill up pill-box pill-popper pillbox pillbug pillhead pillmaker pillmaking pillmonger pillworm pillwort pilly pinkpill poison pill polypill pop pills postpill power pill prepill purple pill radio pill radiopill red pill silly pill sleeping pill smart pill sugar pill sugarcoat a bitter pill sugarcoat the pill superpill swallow a bitter pill sweeten the pill take a pill take the red pill tough pill to swallow water pill white pill

Etymologically Related To

pool

Context

baseball definite firearms gui slang textiles uk

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

birth control device burden contraceptive contraceptive device disagreeable person dosage dose encumbrance incumbrance load onus preventative preventive prophylactic device thing unpleasant person

Type Of (IsA)

artifact burden concentration of medicine consumable product contraceptive delivery vehicle for drug dose non agentive artifact oral medication shaped so small piece of medication thing unpleasant person

Receives Action

designed for person to swallow

Related Terms

annoying austria bark baseball bay birth birth control bottle bottles bullet capsule category comic contemptible contraceptive contraceptive medicine control cylindrical despoil dose england form hair health illness impoverish inlet inside medicate medication medicinal medicinal tablet medicine medicine capsule medicine dose medicine form medicine inside medicine tablet north somerset oral pebble peel pillage pool rectangle rounded skin swallow swallowed tablet tag tyrol unpleasant vitamin vitamin tablet

Synonym Network

cap tablet

Used For

alleviating symptoms altering biochemistry altering body chemistry altering physical sensations annoying everyone concentrating drug cure illness cure yourself curing ailments curing illness delevering medication drug therapy easing pain fufilling addiction get better giving people drugs headache headaches help sleep medication medicine prevent pregnancy timing release treat illness vitamins

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