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

  • (..) canzon... past... present. And the future... here. Get in. Severe patients need strong medicine. As french say. To Johan Maria, with best wishes... Johan Maria, it's your name? Yes. Johan Maria Muller... (..)
    1965 Forest of the Hanged