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

  • (..) about who the father is if only... If only it wasn't a colored man. Everyone will know when they see the child. Does it... does it have to be a procedure? Is there a medicine? No. A girl I knew at school said she heard there was an old Indian remedy. There's no proven method except surgery. (..)
    2014 TvShow: The Knick Title: The Golden Lotus Season: 1 Episode 9