medicine

medicine
n
1. medication, medicament, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription drug, officinal, prescription, preparation; over the counter drug or medicine, nonprescription medication, proprietory medicine; miracle or wonder drug, antitoxin, vaccine; antibiotic, antibody, materia medica. See alsomedicament.
2. dose, draft, potion; shot, injection, booster; tablet, pill, capsule, Pharm. troche, lozenge, Both Pharm., Vet. Med. bolus, electuary.
3. medical treatment or attention, therapeutics, allopathy, pharmacognosy; surgery, acupuncture; dosing, doctoring.
4. medical science, healing art, folk medicine, preventive medicine, Archaic. physic; medical practice or profession, practice of medicine.
5. give [s.o.] a doseor taste of his own medicine
repay, repay in kind, pay back, pay back in full measure, requite, revenge oneself, retaliate in kind, give in return, get even, even the score, settle the score, turn the tables on, get one's own back, Inf. get back at, make [s.o.] eat crow or his hat, give [s.o.] his deserts or just deserts, Inf. give [s.o.] what is coming to him, Inf. give [s.o.] his comeuppance, Inf. settle or square accounts.
6. take one’s medicine
take the consequences, pay the piper, swallow a bitter pill, take it on the chin, take the blame, answer for, take or accept responsibility, Inf. face the music, Inf. get what is coming to one, Sl. take the rap.

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