GRE Word List
MAIM
to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously
The meaning of the word maim is to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| enhance | heighten |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| indecisive | marked by or prone to indecision : irresolute |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |