medicine

Definition

  • noun: a substance that is used in treating disease or relieving pain and that is usually in the form of a pill or a liquid
  • noun: a substance or preparation used in treating disease
  • synonyms: medication, medicament, remedy

Examples

  • The movie is about a playboy who gets 'a taste of his own medicine' when the girl he falls in love with jilts him for another guy.

  • If he loses the case, he should just 'take his medicine' and stop complaining.

  • Their research has led to many important advances in modern 'medicine'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I treated you so horribly and you deserved so much more. Stop, you're clearly in shock. I mean, what the hell is happening? Where have you been? Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed East and I ended up in Kathmandu. - Kathmandu? - Yeah. (..)
    2016 Doctor Strange
  • (..) Maybe it's time to consider stopping. No, now is exactly the time not to stop. Because, you see, I'm not getting any better! But this isn't medicine anymore, this is mania. There's some things, just can't be fixed. - Life without my work... - Is still life. (..)
    2016 Doctor Strange