Mull

/mʌl/ · verb

Meaning

(usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
2. To powder; to pulverize.
3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
6. To dull or stupefy.
7. (slang, archaic) To bungle or botch.
8. (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

Example Sentences

to mull a thought or a problem

he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision

It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.

But here’s a thought I had as you were speaking just now, and I’m mulling it over.

When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.

'That's rather like another plant where a string of pearls was changed some years ago,' volunteered Greatorex, laying aside the paper in favour of his own reminiscences. […] 'Yes; they mulled that by not copying the sale label closely enough, and the attendant noticed it when the necklace was laid down again. […]'

2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck After studying the page a bit longer, she made a face. "Good Lord, you've really made a mull of it. Here, let me have a closer look."

Mr. HERDMAN. — The honourable member for Nelson says they made a mull of it. If the honourable gentleman had been a financial authority he would never have given expression to such a thought.

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• mulls
• mulling
• mulled

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