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"word": "mull over"
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"word": "mulled wine"
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"text": "to mull a thought or a problem",
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},
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"text": "he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision",
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},
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"ref": "2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian",
"text": "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.",
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"To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate."
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"(usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate."
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "overveje"
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"word": "gennemtænke"
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "overwegen"
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "miettiä"
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"word": "réfléchir"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "considérer"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "ruminer"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "erwägen"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "grübeln"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "latolgat"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "töpreng"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "mempertimbangkan"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "memikirkan"
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{
"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"note": "(use in + abl for object) aestuare",
"sense": "to work over mentally"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "cogitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "ponderar"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "yarpay"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razmyšljátʹ",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "размышля́ть"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "obdúmyvatʹ",
"sense": "to work over mentally",
"word": "обду́мывать"
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"_dis1": "81 6 3 0 4 7",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to work over mentally",
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"To powder; to pulverize."
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"To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form."
],
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"sense": "to chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form",
"word": "picar"
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"To heat and spice something, such as wine."
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"word": "temperere"
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"word": "maustaa ja lämmittää"
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"To join two or more individual windows at mullions."
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"To dull or stupefy."
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"An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger."
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"ref": "1904, Parliamentary Debates, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 83",
"text": "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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"text": "2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck\nAfter 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.\""
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],
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}
],
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],
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}
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