Rice gruel is easy to digest.
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Gruel
//ˈɡɹuːəl//
Synonyms for "gruel" (121 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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5 entriescoordinate
4 entriesderived
6 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesinstance of
1 entriesis a
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9 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- pite noun (thin watery porridge)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀθάρη noun (thin watery porridge)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- duru sıyıq noun (thin watery porridge)
- horra noun (thin watery porridge)
- qaşıqaşı noun (thin watery porridge)
- sıyıqaşı noun (thin watery porridge)
Bashkir
1 entries- бутҡа noun (thin watery porridge)
Bengali
1 entries- মণ্ড noun (thin watery porridge)
Bulgarian
1 entries- каша noun (thin watery porridge)
Catalan
1 entries- farinetes noun (thin watery porridge)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 粥 noun (thin watery porridge)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 稀飯 /稀饭 noun (thin watery porridge)
- 粥 noun (thin watery porridge)
Czech
1 entries- ovesná kaše noun (thin watery porridge)
Danish
1 entries- vælling noun (thin watery porridge)
Dutch
2 entries- havergort noun (thin watery porridge)
- watergruwel noun (thin watery porridge)
Esperanto
1 entries- kaĉo noun (thin watery porridge)
Faroese
2 entries- havrasuppa noun (thin watery porridge)
- vellingur noun (thin watery porridge)
Finnish
1 entries- velli noun (thin watery porridge)
French
1 entries- gruau noun (thin watery porridge)
Georgian
1 entries- თხელი ფაფა noun (thin watery porridge)
German
3 entries- Grütze noun (thin watery porridge)
- Mehlsuppe noun (thin watery porridge)
- Schleimsuppe noun (thin watery porridge)
Greek
1 entries- χυλός noun (thin watery porridge)
Hungarian
3 entries- kása noun (thin watery porridge)
- pép noun (thin watery porridge)
- zabkása (oat gruel) noun (thin watery porridge)
Indonesian
1 entries- bubur noun (thin watery porridge)
Irish
3 entries- brachán lom noun (thin watery porridge)
- brachán réidh noun (thin watery porridge)
- praiseach noun (thin watery porridge)
Japanese
1 entries- 粥 noun (thin watery porridge)
Khmer
2 entries- បបរ noun (thin watery porridge)
- បបរ បាយ noun (thin watery porridge)
Korean
1 entries- 죽 noun (thin watery porridge)
Māori
1 entries- pākū noun (thin watery porridge)
Navajo
1 entries- tóshchíín noun (thin watery porridge)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hewdel noun (thin watery porridge)
Occitan
1 entries- milhàs noun (thin watery porridge)
Polish
1 entries- kleik noun (thin watery porridge)
Russian
2 entries- ка́ша noun (thin watery porridge)
- ка́шица noun (thin watery porridge)
Slovak
1 entries- kaša noun (thin watery porridge)
Spanish
1 entries- avenate noun (thin watery porridge)
Swedish
1 entries- välling noun (thin watery porridge)
Tausug
1 entries- mistang noun (thin watery porridge)
Thai
1 entries- ข้าวต้ม noun (thin watery porridge)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཐུག་པ noun (thin watery porridge)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ка́ша noun (thin watery porridge)
Uyghur
1 entries- بوتقا noun (thin watery porridge)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cháo đặc noun (thin watery porridge)
Welsh
1 entries- gruel noun (thin watery porridge)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
When he was young, he was so poor that he virtually had to live on gruel.
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I also brought some gruel I made. It just needs warming up.
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When he was young, he was poor and had to live on rice gruel.
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