[yùn niàng, ㄩㄣˋ ㄋㄧㄤˋ, 酝酿 / 醞釀] mull over (an issue); carry on a preliminary round of exploratory discussions #8,317[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
mull over \mull over\, v. t.
To think about; to consider; to ruminate about; as, mull it
over and decide in the morning. [Colloq. U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mull over
v 1: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of
the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the
question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist
must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: {chew
over}, {think over}, {meditate}, {ponder}, {excogitate},
{contemplate}, {muse}, {reflect}, {mull}, {mull over},
{ruminate}, {speculate}]