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

  • (..) We don't need to talk about this in front of the children. These are details that are... Yeah. The doctors, um, put her in the hospital. They gave her medicine, but she was really sick. Yeah. And she... died. Sick people die. Sometimes they-they die. She died 'cause of... (..)
    2016 Captain Fantastic