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mill around

mill around verb: to move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.

Verb

mill around (third-person singular simple present mills around, present participle milling around, simple past and past participle milled around)

  1. (intransitive, usually) To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.
    • "I hope you don't think you're going to mill around out here alone," Rowdy said tartly.1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in Rowdy of the Cross L
    • There were a few eager teens milling around in the parking lot.2008 April 30, Matt Selman, “Grand Theft Auto IV: The 6.24% Review”, in Time

mill around meaning in Malayalam

mill around in Malayalam

throng, swarm, seethe
കൂട്ടംകൂടുക, വട്ടംകൂടുക, തടിച്ചുകൂടുക, തിങ്ങിക്കൂടുക, തിങ്ങിവിങ്ങുക, ഒന്നിച്ചുകൂടുക

Forms of mill around

third-person singular presentmills around
present participlemilling around
past participlemilled around
pastmilled around

Questions about mill around

What does mill around mean?
Mill around means to move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.
What is mill around in Malayalam?
Mill around in Malayalam is കൂട്ടംകൂടുക, വട്ടംകൂടുക, തടിച്ചുകൂടുക. See Mill around meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is mill around?
Mill around is a verb.
What is the past tense of mill around?
The past tense of mill around is milled around.

Words near mill around in the dictionary

  1. Milky-Way Galaxy
  2. milky-white
  3. Milkyway
  4. mill
  5. mill about
  6. mill around
  7. mill bar
  8. mill bars
  9. mill car
  10. mill cinder
  11. mill course

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mill around (page history and authors); mill around (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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