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1. A reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
   - muser, ponderer, ruminator
    
2. A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
   - pestle, pounder
    
3. A vessel in which wine is mulled

1. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   - cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick, marmelise [Brit, informal], trounce, whale [N. Amer], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], wipe the floor, beat hollow, smoke [N. Amer], slaughter, hammer, tromp [N. Amer]

1. Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
   - Paul Hermann Muller
    
2. British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
   - Max Muller, Friedrich Max Muller
    
3. United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
   - Hermann Joseph Muller
    
4. German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
   - Johann Muller, Regiomontanus
    
5. Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)
   - K. Alex Muller, Karl Alex Muller
    
6. German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
   - Johannes Peter Muller

Derived forms: mullers, mullered, mullering

Type of: anatomist, astronomer, beat, beat out, chemist, crush, geneticist, mathematician, nuclear physicist, philologist, philologue, physiologist, shell, stargazer, thinker, tool, trounce, uranologist, vanquish, vessel

Encyclopedia: Muller, Karl