gruel vs incarceration

gruel

noun
  • punishment 

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

  • something that lacks substance 

  • semen 

verb
  • ejaculate 

  • To exhaust, use up, disable 

  • to punish 

incarceration

noun
  • The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. 

  • A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. 

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