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Answer for the clue "Think (over) ", 4 letters:
mull

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES mulled wine COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB over ▪ On his morning run along the Embankment, Adam mulled over the tasks that still needed to be carried out next. ▪ Barney appeared to be mulling over what he had just ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A thin, soft muslin. 2 (context uncountable English) marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. 3 A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. 4 The gauze used in bookbinding ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sweeten, spice and heat a drink," c.1600, of unknown origin, perhaps from Dutch mol , a kind of white, sweet beer, or from Flemish molle a kind of beer, and related to words for "to soften." Related: Mulled ; mulling .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre" an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mull \Mull\, v. t. [OE. mullen. See 2d Muller .] To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]

Usage examples of mull.

It was that lament which in all the country from Mull to Moidart is the begetter of long thoughts.

Kenmore, once a research scientist at a government-owned facility in twenty-first-century America, now Archbishop of York in this world into which he and a companion had projected themselves almost two hundred years before, slumped back into his padded and canopied cathedra chair and took a long draught of spicy mulled canary wine, for the night was chill for summer, and after so long even a man who had been treated with the longevity serum still aged somewhat and felt the effects of that process on cold nights.

Then Coquille fetched him mulled wine to help him sleep, and did not come out.

Dengar had been mulling it over ever since he had carried Fett down here.

It runs from a lofty gowl in the Grampians down to the slate-mines at Ballachulish, at the heid of the loch called Linnhe, which runs down to plash the shores of Mull and spaw into the Atlantic.

She wanted nothing better than a hot meal and some mulled holk to soothe her aching bones.

He sipped on his mulled holk, hoping that might relieve the pain a little.

As she drove south through the swiftly flowing traffic, she mulled over the fact that Gary Lasch had met and become involved with Annamarie Scalli, a young nurse at the hospital, and that reckless indiscretion had cost him his life.

He had been brought very close to that immane and nefandous Burke-and-Hare business which made the blood of civilization run cold in the year 1828, and told me, in a very calm way, with an occasional pinch from the mull, to refresh his memory, some of the details of those frightful murders, never rivalled in horror until the wretch Dumollard, who kept a private cemetery for his victims, was dragged into the light of day.

Daily you pored over page after blank page, imagining you sopped up great stores of knowledge, when really you only mulled facts already planted in your own mind.

With practiced skill the Mull fended off such importunities or appointed a study commission, which invariably reported the Treaty lands to be havens of peace compared to the Retent, where the independent tribes conducted feuds, raids, assassinations, retaliations, outrages, massacres, atrocities and ambushes.

I speak for the provisional executive committee of the Uaian Order, and I inform you that a large group of Uldras from the Retent, nominally wards of the Mull, yesterday invaded our lands, specifically Morningswake Domain, and there committed acts of murder and vandalism.

He fingered the bulbous end of his torc while he mulled over the situation.

Tired of bickering over the Chunnel, over untapped oil off the Isle of Mull.

I mulled things over for a time, at once anguished by all that happenedthat happens still!