absorb vs mull

absorb

verb
  • Assimilate mentally. 

  • in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo. 

  • taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat. 

  • To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully. 

  • To take in energy and convert it, as 

  • To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in. 

  • To occupy or consume time. 

  • To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction. 

  • To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. 

  • To accept or purchase in quantity. 

  • To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in. 

  • To defray the costs. 

  • in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil. 

mull

verb
  • To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. 

  • To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. 

  • To dull or stupefy. 

  • To powder; to pulverize. 

  • To heat and spice something, such as wine. 

  • To join two or more individual windows at mullions. 

noun
  • An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger. 

  • A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. 

  • dirt; rubbish 

  • A thin, soft muslin. 

  • A promontory. 

  • A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn. 

  • The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover. 

  • Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. 

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