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Gruel vs Gurgle - What's the difference?

gruel | gurgle |

As nouns the difference between gruel and gurgle

is that gruel is a thin, watery porridge while gurgle is a gurgling sound.

As verbs the difference between gruel and gurgle

is that gruel is (transative) to exhaust; use up; disable while gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound.

gruel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin, watery porridge.

    • Related terms

    * groat, groats * grit, grits * grout

    Coordinate terms

    * oatmeal * porridge

    Verb

  • (transative) to exhaust; use up; disable

    • Derived terms

    * gruelling

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    gurgle

    English

    Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
    • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
    • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

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