Usually means: Thin, watery porridge of oats.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gruel: Merriam-Webster
  2. gruel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gruel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gruel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gruel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gruel, gruel: Wordnik
  7. gruel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gruel: Wiktionary
  9. gruel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gruel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gruel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gruel, gruel: Dictionary.com
  13. gruel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gruel (computer worm), Gruel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gruel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gruel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gruel: Rhymezone
  18. Gruel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gruel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Gruel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gruel: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gruel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gruel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gruel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gruel: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gruel, gruel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gruel: The Folk File
  3. gruel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See grueling as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.
▸ noun:  Punishment
▸ noun:  Something that lacks substance
▸ noun:  (slang, US, obsolete) Sentimental poetry
▸ noun:  (slang, British) Semen
▸ verb:  (transitive) To exhaust, use up, disable
▸ verb:  (transitive) to punish
▸ verb:  (slang, British) ejaculate

Similar:
gruelling, arduous, toilsome, laborious, backbreaking, labourious, effortful, heavy, punishing, hard, more...

Opposite:
feast, banquet, gourmet, delicacy, indulgence

Phrases:
water gruel, thick gruel, more...

Adjectives:
thin, thick, water, warm, little, hot, rice, oatmeal, watery, sour, barley

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     oatmeal,     cream, more...


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Similar:
gruelling, arduous, toilsome, laborious, backbreaking, labourious, effortful, heavy, punishing, hard, more...

Opposite:
feast, banquet, gourmet, delicacy, indulgence

Phrases:
water gruel, thick gruel, more...

Adjectives:
thin, thick, water, warm, little, hot, rice, oatmeal, watery, sour, barley

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     oatmeal,     cream, more...



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