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单词 gruel
释义

gruel /grooˈəl/

noun
  1. A thin food made by boiling oatmeal in water
  2. Punishment, severe treatment (archaic informal)
transitive verb

To subject to any severe or exhausting experience

ORIGIN: OFr gruel (Fr gruau) groats, from LL grūtellum, dimin of grūtum meal, of Gmc origin; cf OE grūt

gruˈelling or (US) gruelˈing noun and adjective

(an experience, ordeal, encounter, defeat, etc that is) punishing, backbreaking, exhausting

gruˈellingly adverb

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