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Definition of pill verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

pill

verb
 
/pɪl/
 
/pɪl/
[intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they pill
 
/pɪl/
 
/pɪl/
he / she / it pills
 
/pɪlz/
 
/pɪlz/
past simple pilled
 
/pɪld/
 
/pɪld/
past participle pilled
 
/pɪld/
 
/pɪld/
-ing form pilling
 
/ˈpɪlɪŋ/
 
/ˈpɪlɪŋ/
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  1. (of a piece of clothing, especially one made of wool) to become covered in very small balls of fibre
    Word Originverb 1960s: from the noun pill denoting a small ball of fluff, extended sense of pill ‘tablet’.
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