mull

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to think over or ponder, or to heat and spice a drink

   She needed a few days to mull over the job offer.

In the sense 'ponder', of uncertain origin, perhaps from mull ('to grind to powder, muddle'); in the sense 'heat and spice a drink', also of obscure origin, recorded from the 17th century.

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