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mull

/muhl/US // mʌl //UK // (mʌl) //

闷闷不乐,闷声发大财,闷棍,闷头苦干

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to study or ruminate; ponder.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to think about carefully; consider: to mull over an idea.
    • : to make a mess or failure of.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbthink about seriously
Forms: mulled, mulling

Examples

  • I’d wanted to make one ever since I was a child, and had been mulling over a particular idea for at least a decade, but I wasn’t sure how it would be received.

  • Governments have floated the notion of opening travel bubbles since at least May—when Australia and New Zealand were mulling the idea.

  • It’s a long-simmering fight that has gotten much more public in the past few months as US lawmakers and regulators have mulled whether Apple should be reined in by antitrust restrictions.

  • I could see … he was mulling around what can be done or something we could do within the state government that would be helpful to her.

  • The business and labor coalition behind the measure, who crafted it as a citizens’ initiative specifically to allow for this backup plan, said Wednesday it was mulling its next moves.

  • A group of friends gathers to mull over what to do with a day off.

  • Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Seth Green, Martin Mull, Peter Riegert, Vanessa Lachey, Brenda Strong.

  • However, I have taken a step back mull over it to think about what Conard is saying, even if he is being gruff about it.

  • Clearly, the attorney has already begun to mull his options.

  • Residents, both locals and expats, mull it over in daily conversations: whose apartment got robbed last night?

  • "There was nae need," said Tammas, handing round his snuff-mull.

  • Meggy has long gone to the kirkyard, but the snuff-mull is still preserved.

  • Kooshy Ram laughed heartily at the idea of any stranger entrusting his wealth to Beeka Mull.

  • The maids were to be in mull or gauze, as a very pretty thin material was called.

  • In 1767, the people of Mull, in consequence of a disease among the cattle, agreed to perform an incantation.