GRE Word List
MUTILATE
to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
The meaning of the word mutilate is to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |