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AMPUTATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they amputate ... he / she / it amputates
Past simple: amputated
Past participle: amputated
-ing form: amputating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove surgically
Example:
amputate limbs
Synonyms:
amputate; cut off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "amputate" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
"Amputate" entails doing...:
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "amputate"):
slough off (separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Did he amputate his foot?
Derivation:
amputation (a surgical removal of all or part of a limb)
amputation (a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs)
amputator (a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb)
