1. Something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
   "She used fabric pills to remove lint from her sweater"
    
2. A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
   "She swallowed the pill with a glass of water";
   - lozenge, tablet, tab
    
3. A contraceptive in the form of a pill containing oestrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
   "She took her birth control pill at the same time every day";
   - birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, anovulatory drug, anovulant
    
4. [informal] Something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
   "his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take"
    
5. [informal] An unpleasant or tiresome person
   "He's such a pill at parties, always complaining about something"

1. (of a fabric) form little balls on the surface
   "the fabric has pilled into an unattractive bumpy texture"
    
2. [slang] Expel from a community or group
   "The fraternity pilled the member for breaking rules";
   - banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise [Brit], shun, cast out, blackball

Derived forms: pilled, pills, pilling

Type of: birth control device, burden, contraceptive, contraceptive device, disagreeable person, dosage, dose, encumbrance, expel, incumbrance, kick out [informal], load, onus, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device, thing, throw out, unpleasant person

Encyclopedia: Pill, North Somerset