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capsulesnounpl. of capsule a small mass containing medicine to be taken orallytook an antibiotic capsule three times a day for a week caps, lozenges, pills, tablets cures, drugs, medications, medicinals, pharmaceuticals, physics, remedies, specificsmiracle drugs, wonder drugspotions, preparationsdosages, dosesdrops, gelcapsboluses, pilules something that encloses another thing especially to protect ita capsule containing all sorts of items from our era that is to be opened 100 years from now armors, cases, casings, cocoons, coverings, covers, encasements, housings, hulls, husks, jackets, pods, sheaths, shells cartridges, cassettes(also casettes)barks, crustscarapaces, houses, mails, panoplies, plates, platings, shieldscuticles, hides, skinsenvelopes, packages, wrappersbackings, coatings, covertures, facings a short statement of the main pointscapsules of the day's major news stories appear on the paper's second page abstracts, breviaries, briefs, conspectuses, digests, encapsulations, epitomes, inventories, outlines, précis, recapitulations, recaps, résumés(or resumes also resumés), roundups, rundowns, run-throughs, summae, summaries, summarizations, summings-up, sums, sum-ups, synopses, wrap-ups abbreviations, abridgments(or abridgements), compendiums(or compendia), compends, condensations, curtailments, shorteningssimplificationsrehashes, reprisesconclusions, epilogues(also epilogs) amplifications, enlargements, expansionsaddenda(also addendums), supplements capsulesverbpresent tense third-person singular of capsuleto reduce in size or volume by or as if by pressing parts or members togethernewscasts that capsule complex, important stories into one-minute bits for easy digestion by viewers capsulizes, collapses, compacts, compresses, condenses, constricts, constringes, contracts, narrows (down), squeezes, telescopes crams, crowds, jam-packs, jams, packsabbreviates, abridges, curtails, shortensboils down, downsizes, shrinksconcentrates, consolidatessimplifies, streamlinesdecreases, diminishes, lessens decompresses, expands, opens, outspreads, outstretches dilates, disperses, dissipates, scattersdistends, inflates, swells |