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/ |
- (of a piece of clothing, especially one made of wool) to become covered in very small balls of fibreWord Originverb 1960s: from the noun pill denoting a small ball of fluff, extended sense of pill ‘tablet’.
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