1 [U] the study and treatment of diseases and injuries:
advances in modern medicine * to study / practise medicine * traditional / conventional / orthodox medicine * alternative medicine
2 [U,C] a substance, especially a liquid that you drink or swallow in order to cure an illness:
Did you take your medicine? * cough medicine * Chinese herbal medicines
IDIOMS
the best medicine the best way of improving a situation, especially of making you feel happier:
Laughter is the best medicine.
a taste / dose of your own medicine the same bad treatment that you have given to others:
Let the bully have a taste of his own medicine.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for medicine is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is medicine a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, medicine is tagged as noun.
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