something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet a unpleasant or tiresome person something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
"his competitor's success was a bitter pill to take" a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
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