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.

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WordMeaning
relegateto send into exile : banish
evanescenttending to vanish like vapor
scotchscottish
dorsalan ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar
complacencyself-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
defileto make unclean or impure: such as
perspicaciousof acute mental vision or discernment : keen
exertionthe act or an instance of exerting
decrepitwasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age
retortto pay or hurl back : return