Meaning & use
Mulled
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Heated and flavored with sugar and spices, typically said of wine or cider.
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They warmed themselves with mugs of mulled wine at the winter market.
The recipe calls for mulled cider simmered slowly with cinnamon sticks and cloves.
A note on using this word
'Mulled' is also the past tense of the verb 'to mull,' as in 'to mull over,' meaning to think about something carefully; the two senses are unrelated in origin.
Words with a similar meaning
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Thought about carefully; considered at length (past tense of 'mull over').
Having mulled the offer for a week, she finally accepted the job.
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