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On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel.
Seth Shostak

Meaning of "gruel" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GRUEL

From Old French, of Germanic origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GRUEL

gruel  [ˈɡruːəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRUEL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gruel is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRUEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gruel

Gruel

Gruel is a type of food consisting of some type of cereal—oat, wheat or rye flour, or rice—boiled in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk than eaten and may not need to be cooked. Historically, gruel—often made from millet, hemp or barley, or, in hard times, from chestnut flour or even the less tannic acorns of some oaks—has been a staple of the Western diet, especially for peasants. The importance of gruel as a form of sustenance is especially noted for invalids and for recently weaned children. Hot malted milk is a form of gruel, although manufacturers like Ovomaltine and Horlicks avoid calling it gruel, due to the negative associations attached to the word through popular culture like Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist. From a literary, bourgeois, or modern point of view, gruel has often been associated with poverty. Gruel is a colloquial expression for any watery or liquidy food of unknown character, e.g., pea soup; soup is derived from sop, the slice of bread which was soaked with broth or thin gruel.

Definition of gruel in the English dictionary

The definition of gruel in the dictionary is a drink or thin porridge, made by boiling meal, esp oatmeal, in water or milk.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRUEL


accrual
əˈkruːəl
construal
kənˈstruːəl
cruel
ˈkruːəl
dividual
dɪˈvɪdjuːəl
dual
ˈdjuːəl
duel
ˈdjuːəl
estrual
ˈɛstruːəl
jewel
ˈdʒuːəl
newel
ˈnjuːəl
newell
ˈnjuːəl
nonaccrual
ˌnɒnəˈkruːəl
nonrenewal
ˌnɒnrɪˈnjuːəl
refuel
riːˈfjuːəl
renewal
rɪˈnjuːəl
self-renewal
ˌsɛlfrɪˈnjuːəl
sewel
ˈsuːəl
Sewell
ˈsuːəl
synfuel
ˈsɪnˌfjuːəl
tewel
ˈtjuːəl
vidual
ˈvɪdjuːəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRUEL

grubbing
grubbing hoe
grubby
grubstake
grudge
grudge match
grudgeful
grudging
grudgingly
grue
gruelingly
grueller
gruelling
gruesome
gruesomely
gruesomeness
gruff
gruffily
gruffly
gruffness

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRUEL

biofuel
diesel fuel
Emmanuel
flex-fuel
fossil fuel
fuel
Immanuel
jet fuel
mutuel
nuclear fuel
Pantagruel
pari-mutuel
premium fuel
prequel
rocket fuel
Samuel
sequel
solid fuel
spirituel
Teruel

Synonyms and antonyms of gruel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gruel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRUEL

Find out the translation of gruel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gruel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gruel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gachas
570 millions of speakers

English

gruel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दलिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عصيدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каша
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mingau
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাউ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gruau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gruel
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Grütze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gruel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đánh nhừ tử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கஞ்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कण्हेरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yulaf lapası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

farinata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kleik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каша
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

terci
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πληγούρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kooknat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

välling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

velling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gruel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRUEL»

The term «gruel» is regularly used and occupies the 96.975 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRUEL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gruel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gruel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gruel

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4 QUOTES WITH «GRUEL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gruel.
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William Kennedy
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
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Michelle Malkin
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
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S. J. Perelman
I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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Seth Shostak
On Mars, where the air is spare - a hundred times less dense than on Earth - someone could hear you scream. But you'd have to really strain to get anyone's attention. On the Red Planet, where the wind is high-pitched and faint, even a symphony orchestra will sound as thin as cheap gruel.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRUEL»

Discover the use of gruel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gruel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Drowning in Gruel
In these nineteen tales, young Gruelites learn lessons when confronted with neighbors who might not be as blind as they appear, dermatologists intent on eradicating birthmarks, and fathers prone to driving on half-inflated tires in order to ...
George Singleton, 2006
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Gruel and Unusual
Undaunted by his second stint in the seventh-grade, Arnold continues to specialize in annoying behavior. He becomes aware that the teacher he calls Apeface has taken a special interest in his "case."
Jim Arter, 1993
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Gruel and unusual punishment: a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery ...
Magdalena Yoder once again ends up in the middle of a baffling mystery when Clarence Webber, an imprisoned con man, succumbs after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, and, with the reputation of PennDutch Inn at stake, sets out to ...
Tamar Myers, 2002
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Women of the Wise Earth: Celebrating the Rainbow Symphony
This book has been birthed with the intention to serve fellow siSTARS around the globe in honouring, celebrating and surrendering into their innate feminine radiance.
Nicole Gruel, Kristie Steers, 2012
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Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change: Agriculture's Imprint ...
yeast is fairly fast, and if a gruel mixture is kept warm and allowed to stand for as little as 24 hours there could be a noticeable production of ethanol. Heated millet, for example, releases a fairly large amount of sugar, and the alcohol content ...
Thomas R. Sinclair, Carol Janas Sinclair, 2010
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Dancing with Dragons: A Journey to Wholeness
This book is an invitation into the fascinating and trepidatious world of the dragons that reside within each of us.
Nicole Gruel, 2012
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Reports from commissioners, inspectors and others
Great Britain House of Commons. P7180“ Dietary. Every Male Prisoner. on County allowance, is allowed '24 02s. of bread, daily; and every Female Prisoner 20 on. of bread, daily. Breakfast. . . . . . ." Gruel, lpint. . . D. 1 Bodedhceflfiozs.
Great Britain House of Commons, 1850
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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
Breakfast Dinner - Sapper Oatmeal gruel, 1 pint Bread, lib. Oatmeal gruel, 1 pint Oatmeal gruel, 1 piut. Bread, 1 lb. Convicted Prisoners for any term exceeding Seven Days and not exceeding Twenty-one Days. Class 2. Oatmeal gruel, 1 pint.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1870
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New York Medical Journal
of pains shooting up the left side of abdomen; urine drawn, §ii. 3.30 a.m., pulse 120; resp. 20; Codeiue, gr. ss; food, four spoonsful milk gruel; has slept a little while, but upon waking made mention of considerable pain; pulse full; says she is ...
‎1865
10
International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
20; Codeine, gr. ss; food, tour spoonsful milk gruel; has slept a little while,but upon waking made mention of considerable pain; pulse full; says she is very warm, but skin is not unnaturally hot; very thirsty; lies with legs extended. 5.30 '.14 .
Edward Swift Dunster, James Bradbridge Hunter, Charles Euchariste de Medicis Sajous, 1865

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRUEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gruel is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Mocktail Revolution is Growing as More Restaurants Adopt …
... on beverages for "invalids and small children" includes such unappetizing suggestions as "cream and carbonated water" and "carrot gruel. «Eater, Jul 15»
2
Hillary Clinton's 'new' economic agenda shouldn't fool anyone. It's …
One looks at the list of leftist wish list priorities from yesteryear and wonders: Hillary, is this thin gruel really all you've got? There aren't even ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
What is Sensational? by Charles Dickens: A spectacular polemic …
He had nothing but a little milk and gruel for two or three days, and was so weakened when it was decided to take him to the workhouse, that ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
4
Iftar treats do the rounds in Coimbatore
The kanji is a nutritious gruel made of raw rice and dal, with the consistency of porridge. One can even take them home and thus, serve the rest ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
5
25 Girls Fall Ill Due to Food Poisoning
According to Rambilli SI K Kumara Swamy, around 25 girl students suffered with vomiting and stomach pain after consuming 'ragi gruel', which ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
6
RU Smarter Than Your Toilet?
Either that or it was the smell of the fermented soy bean gruel called “Nato.” Whatever, my eyes started to tear up because the previous toilet ... «SitNews, Jul 15»
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'Once Upon A Time' Season 5 Promo Shows Dark Emma In Action …
I mean, I get that this is a rudimentary prison and the Dark One is a criminal, but “gruel” seems too kind a word for the food situation. It's a far cry ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
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Lake Michigan Lighthouse For Sale Through Online Auction
Interestingly, Skillagalee is actually a word that means a thin broth or gruel according to LighthouseFriends.com. © TM and © Copyright 2015 ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
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Following the scent of Ramzan
Chef Arul Santhosh leans forward to whisper that the nutritious gruel is an ideal way to break a day of fasting. A combination of rice and lentils, ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
10
Resident Rendezvoyeur: At your service
Free food and rice kanji (gruel) cooked to stringent specifications were distributed from the Government anna chatrams. Rev Fr Briand, now a ... «Bangalore Mirror, Jul 15»

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