mullering

Verb (1)

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

1. (colloquial, obsolete, rare, transitive) To grind up (something) into, or as if into, powder.
   • The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered,’ copious fumes are evolved.1848, On Lucifer Matches, in the Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7 (1847-8), page 523

Verb (2)

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

1. (UK, slang, transitive) To destroy (something); to ruin, to wreck.
2. (UK, slang, transitive) To beat or thrash (someone).
   • We walked down to the golf club to get a beer; they readily agreed as we went, it had been a dreadful game. Macca [Steve McMahon] asked Gazza [Paul Gascoigne], had he heard? – they were getting ‘mullered’ back home. […] Gazza said he wasn’t surprised, it was fair enough – and Macca said the same....1990, Pete Davies, “All Played Out: England–Ireland”, in All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia ’90, London: Mandarin Paperbacks, published 1991, →ISBN, page 235
3. (UK, often, slang, transitive) To utterly defeat or outplay (a sportsperson, a team, etc.); to destroy, to thrash, to trounce.

   Synonyms:

   outclass

Verb (3)

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

1. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To cut down or reduce the height of (a top hat).

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