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gruel

gruel / gruel

NounTransitive Verb

Meanings

Noungruel

A thin, liquid food consisting of boiled cereal, such as oatmeal, typically eaten by poor or sick people.

"The prisoners were fed nothing but watery gruel."

Transitive Verbgruel

[~ something]

To cook cereal in water to create a thin porridge.

"She spent the morning grueling oats for the children."

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