amputate
verb/ˈæmpjʊteɪt/
Etymology
From Latin amputō (“prune, cut away”). The original sense of pruning (a tree, etc.) became obsolete. The OED considers uses related to anything other than an animal limb to be figurative uses of the modern sense.
- derived from amputō
Definitions
To cut off, to prune.
To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb.
- The surgeon had to amputate the patient’s leg to save his life.
- Several soldiers had limbs amputated after the battle.
The neighborhood
- neighboramputation
- neighboramputee
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for amputate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA