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've done and people I've tramped on. And I hope they forgive me... ...and I'll never do it again, that's for sure. Paul, we're not gonna have some Cherokee medicine man in here... ...hollering and shaking his dick, are we? - Well, actually... TOOT-TOOT: Still praying, still praying. (..)
    1999 The Green Mile