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mulct, n. 1. fine, penalty, amercement, (at English universities) sconce, settlement, Law. damages; forfeiture, forfeit, Eng. Law. praemunire, confiscation, Law. escheat, Law. sequestration; fixed fee, fee, charge, cost, Hist. scot.
-v. 2. fine, amerce, impose a fine on, (at English universities) sconce; confiscate, Law. sequestrate, Law. escheat; penalize, punish, exact punishment.
3. defraud, Law. extort, fleece, swindle, cheat, bilk.
mule, n. 1. hinny, jackass, ass, donkey, burro, jenny; hybrid, crossbreed, mixed breed, mongrel.
2. Informal, stubborn person, recalcitrant, irreconcilable, diehard, Inf. bitter-ender, stickler.
mulish, adj. 1. stubborn, obstinate, pervicacious, pig-headed, obdurate, headstrong, willful, strong-willed, self-willed; intransigent, uncompromising, irreconcilable, unyielding, unbending; hard-line, determined, rigid, inflexible, dogged, pertinacious, inexorable; cross-grained, wrong-headed, perverse, contrary, froward, resistant, opposed, restive, balky, balking; intractable, indocile, unsubmissive, uncompliant, immovable, uncooperative, wayward, unconforming, nonconforming.
2. disobedient, refractory, stiff-necked, fractious, recalcitrant, rebellious, insubordinate, defiant, contumacious, recusant; uncompliable, indomitable, unconquerable, unsubduable; difficult, hard to handle, unmanageable, ungovernable, unteachable.
mull, v. 1. study, examine, con, evaluate, weigh, turn over, review, revolve; ruminate, cogitate, chew, chew one's cud, reflect on, think over, rack one's brains, cudgel one's brain, trouble one's head; brood, dwell on, be in a brown study; ponder, muse, think about, wonder about, consider, speculate, dream about; concentrate, focus, put one's mind to, have one's mind on; meditate, contemplate, cerebrate, think, put on one's thinking cap, be abstracted, be lost in thought. 2. muddle, fuddle, jumble, mix up, mess up, make a mess, make a hash, confuse; bungle, botch, make sad work of, Inf. muff, SI. blow, blunder, boggle, make a mistake, mistake, err, slip, trip, fumble, stumble, slip up, trip up, SI. screw up.
multicolored, adj. polychromatic, polychromic, of many colors or shades or hues, versicolor, multicolor; prismatic, prismatical, spectral, rainbowy, rainbowlike, colorful, brilliant, pavonine; iridescent, pearly, opalescent, opaline, nacreous, nacred, Crystall. pleo-chroic; shot, variegated, varied, varicolored, kaleidoscopic; parti-colored, marble, marbly, marmoreal, marmorean, motley, streaked, striated, striped; piebald, pied, (esp. of horses) skewbald, dappled, brindled, spotted, mottled, speckled, flecked; checked, checkered, plaid, tartan.
multifaceted, adj. 1. many-sided, many-faced; manifold, multifold, multiplex, multifarious, multitudinous; multitalented, diversified, variegated, eclectic.
2. intricate, complicated, complex, involved; knotty, tortuous, convoluted, difficult.
multifarious, adj. multitudinous, manifold, multifold, multiplex, multiple, numerous, many, several; of many kinds, varied, miscellaneous, various, diverse, divers, sundry; heterogeneous, motley, mixed; manysided, many-faceted, diversified, variegated, eclectic; multiform, polymorphous, polymorphic, diversiform, variform, omnifarious, Elect.1 multiphase.
multiform, n. polymorphous, polymorphic, diversiform, variform, omnifarious, Elect, multiphase; multifarious, manifold, multifold, multiplex.
multiplication, n. 1. increase, augmentation, addition, superaddition; enlargement, magnification, great-ening, expansion, build-up, heightening, aggrandizement; doubling, duplication, redoubling, tripling, triplication, quadrupling, quadruplication, quintuplica-tion, quintupling, sextupling, septupling, septuplica-tion, octupling, decupling, Bridge, redouble; growth, accretion, acceleration, speed-up, intensification, rise, mushrooming, burgeoning.
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