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 |
|---|---|
| spate | freshet |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| prattle | prate |