medicine

Something you take or put on your body to treat an illness or help you feel better.

• Take your medicine after breakfast.
• This medicine helped my cough.
• Did the doctor prescribe any medicine?

How to use it: medicine for something (The doctor gave me medicine for my cough.)

Similar words: medication, drug, remedy

Common phrases: take medicine, cough medicine, medicine for something, prescribe medicine

The study and practice of treating illness and keeping people healthy.

• She wants to study medicine.
• Modern medicine has saved many lives.
• He practiced medicine in a small village.

Similar words: medical science

Common phrases: study medicine, practice medicine, modern medicine

Anything that helps solve a problem or makes someone feel better.

• Laughter is good medicine.
• The spending cuts were bitter medicine for the town.
• A holiday was the best medicine for her stress.

Similar words: remedy, cure

Common phrases: best medicine, bitter medicine, harsh medicine