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 |
|---|---|
| predetermine | foreordain |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| lustrous | reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| momentum | a property (see property |