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# gruel

«gruel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thin, watery food made by boiling oats or other grain…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

A thin, watery food made by boiling oats or other grain in water or milk. It was cheap food for poor people or the sick long ago. (old use) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, gruel is the meagre meal of a poor person or the food given to the sick

### examples

- The orphan ate a bowl of gruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruel/#x1)
- Make some gruel for the sick king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruel/#x2)
- The gruel was thin and cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruel/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gruel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gruel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.