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 |
|---|---|
| brawny | muscular |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| unkempt | not combed |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |