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'm not gonna leave you! I'm not gonna do that. Why not? Nobody's gonna find you in here. They already found me. We just get you some medicine. He can't. They don't give so much parachutes. We'll figure something out. Like what? Something. Is that medicine? No! Soup. Nice taste. Do you fed - once? I think about that all the time. (..)
    2012 The Hunger Games