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

  • (..) You've been sniffing too much of that nail polish. And, anyway, nothing is going to happen to me. You know why? Because I take my medicine every day. Grandma, she's here. - What? - Susie. Susie's in the in-between. (..)
    2009 The Lovely Bones