Gruel Definition

gro͝oəl
noun
Thin, easily digested porridge made by cooking meal in water or milk.
Webster's New World
Punishment.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Gruel

Noun

Singular:
gruel
Plural:
gruels

Origin of Gruel

  • From Old French gruel (> French gruau), from Frankish *grūt. Compare German Grütze (“grout”), English groats, grit.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gruel Sentence Examples

  • So this gruel isn't to your taste?

  • Black bread and thin gruel twice daily was the staple diet.

  • There, poor families consume rice as a staple; babies are often weaned on rice gruel.

  • I made a meal gruel and gave it to her after sweetening it with sugar.

  • I feel sorry for the students at Irvine having to eat the gruel of Islamic ignorance fed to them by LeVine.

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Words Starting With

GGRGRU

Words Ending With

LELUEL

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Words Starting With G and Ending With L

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