how to pronounce gruel

/ˈɡɹuː.əl/

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gruel is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of gruel in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… was fan the gruel water in which rice …”

meanings of gruel

noun:

A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

verb:

To exhaust; use up; disable; to punish.

gruel frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word gruel occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics gruel can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that gruel can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;