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

  • (..) LARA LEE: Uh, Calvin, I just got her all dressed up and looking nice. – But… Lara Lee, Dr. Schultz is from Dusseldorf,they don't got niggers there. He's a man of medicine. I'm sure it would fascinate him, the niggers endurance for pain. These niggers are tough Dr. Schultz, no doubt about it. (..)
    2012 Django Unchained