1. 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
   "The artist mixed pigments with a muller on a stone slab";
   - pestle, pounder
    
2. A vessel in which wine is mulled
   "They prepared the spiced wine in a copper muller over low heat"

1. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   "Our team mullered the opposition in the final match";
   - cream [informal], clobber [informal], drub [informal], thrash [informal], lick [informal], paste [informal], blow away [informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal], hammer [informal], wipe the floor [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], beat hollow [informal], slaughter [informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], shellack [N. Amer, informal], shellac [N. Amer, informal]

1. Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
   - Paul Hermann Muller
    
2. United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
   - Hermann Joseph Muller
    
3. British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
   - Max Muller, Friedrich Max 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: mullering, mullered, mullers

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

Encyclopedia: Muller, Karl