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1.A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.
2.Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
3.A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.(slang)
- You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [..] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.
4.Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.(informal)
- Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
- She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.
- Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

1.Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
- This sweater is already pilled: it fuzzed after the very first wash.
- During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.
2.To form into the shape of a pill.
- Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
3.To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
- Pilling the cat is such a nightmare.
- She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.
4.To take recreational drugs in pill form.
- Nev offered it to Layla who replied, "Thanks, but at the moment I'm pilling and it will bring me down."

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pil-?

Latin pilus?

Latin pila

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ula

Latin pilula, pillulabor.

Middle Low German pilleder.

Middle Dutch pilleder.

Middle English pille

English pill