gruel

高中 FREQ #29485

n. 稀粥 vt. 使极度疲劳, 惩罚

发音

/ˈɡɹuːəl/
其它 /ɡɹuːl/
/ɡɹʊəl/

词形变化

gruels 复数 gruels grueled grueling gruelled gruelling gruels 三单 grueling 现在分词 gruelling 现在分词 grueled 过去式 grueled 过去分词 gruelled 过去式 gruelled 过去分词

别名

grool

教材释义与例句

名词

稀粥

a food made of oats cooked in water or milk, which poor people ate in the past

动词

使极度疲劳；累垮

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    粥

    稀饭

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Punishment.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Something that lacks substance.

    可数 不可数

    thin gruel

  4. 4.

    Sentimental poetry.

    美国 可数 废旧 俚语 不可数
  5. 5.

    Semen.

    可数 俚语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To exhaust, use up, disable.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To punish.

    及物
  3. 3.

    Ejaculate.

    俚语

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

porridge

下位词 4

congee jook loblolly skilly

相关短语

water gruel give someone his gruel cold gruel gives someone his gruel giving someone his gruel gave someone his gruel given someone his gruel

词源

From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel (“meal or flour made from beans, lentils, etc.”), from Old French gruel (“coarse meal; > French gruau”), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum (“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.

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