GRE Word List

CRABBED

marked by a forbidding moroseness

The meaning of the word crabbed is marked by a forbidding moroseness.

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disfigureto impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries
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realmkingdom
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expungeto strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
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