GRE Word List
MAIM
to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously
The meaning of the word maim is to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| provenance | origin |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| perforate | to make a hole through |