Definition of Advil

1. Noun. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an antipyretic. "Daily use of ibuprofen can irritate the stomach"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Advil

Adurol
AdvP
Advaita
Advaitism
Advanced Access Content System
Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Research and Development Activity
Advent
Advent Sunday
Advent calendar
Advent calendars
Adventism
Adventist
Adventists
Adversary
Advil
Adygea
Adygei
Adygeya
Adyghe
Adyghe Autonomous Oblast
Adzera
Adzhar
Adzhara
Adzharia
Adélie Land
Aeby's plane
Aedes aegypti
Aedes albopictus

Literary usage of Advil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Secret War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II edited by George C. Chalou (1995)
""You took two advil the last time, too." Well, I hope we are getting "the right stuff," but it will not be through this process or by way of recommendations ..."

2. Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs: Selected from the Manuscripts of Sir by David Laing (1848)
"... and advil'e," and fo is not nuda verba, but airt and part of ... armes, nor ammunition, nor with advil'e how to ..."

3. Mentally Incontinent by Joe Peacock (2005)
"“She was unconscious, apparently from a reaction brought on from taking an entire bottle of advil.” Okay, yeah, you killed her. I KNEW IT! I KILLED HER! ..."

4. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... 148 William becomes the Head of the English Opposition, 149 Mordaunt proposes to William a Descent on England, 150 William rejects the advil in England ..."

5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"advil Female.—Length (skins), 189-212 (198); wing, 112-123 (116.8); tail, 35-38(36.5); exposed culmen, 16-17 (16.4); width of bill, 8-8.5 (8.1); ..."

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