noun🔗ShareA tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis."After traveling to a tropical country, she experienced persistent diarrhea and a painful, sore tongue, leading doctors to suspect she had contracted sprue. "medicinediseaseChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(founding) The hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold."The molten bronze flowed down the sprue and filled the intricate mold to create the statue. "materialtechnologyindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(founding) Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold."The broken mold for the new toy had a lot of sprue, making it hard to remove the small figures. "materialtechnicalindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece."After the plastic model cooled, I had to sprue the pieces carefully from the plastic frame. "materialtechnicalprocessindustrymachineChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
