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Amputate   /ˈæmpjətˌeɪt/   Listen
Amputate

verb
(past & past part. amputated; pres. part. amputating)
1.
Remove surgically.  Synonym: cut off.





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"Amputate" Quotes from Famous Books



... amputate Porter's arm this morning, and he won't consent unless you are with him. You will come, of course?" added the surgeon to Christie, having tried and found her a woman with no "confounded nerves" to ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott
... hip there lurks disease" (So dreamt this lively dreamer), "Or devastating caries In humerus or femur, If you can pay a handsome fee, Oh, then you may remember me— With joy elate I'll amputate Your ...
— More Bab Ballads • W. S. Gilbert
... and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought; "Thank God they had to amputate!" ...
— The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon • Siegfried Sassoon


Words linked to "Amputate" :   cut off, medicine, take, take away, practice of medicine, remove, amputation, amputator, slough off, withdraw, cut


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