as in to sever
medical
to remove (part of a person's body)
His arm was badly injured and had to be amputated.
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Recent Examples of amputate
Dickinson's right leg was amputated in 2021, his daughter wrote on Facebook, adding that he was fitted with a prosthetic a few months later and re-learned how to walk.
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Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025
The Duchess of Sussex spent the weekend ringing round hospitals in the Philippines, where her father had a leg amputated during life saving surgery last week.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Meghan Markle‘s father had his leg amputated after a very big health scare.
—Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 5 Dec. 2025
After a car accident, Craig’s leg is amputated, leaving him bed-ridden and lonely at home with only his family and a neighbor boy for company.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
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To minimize okra's infamous textural issues, take care not to cut the stem end so closely that the pod is severed.—
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In 2022, debris from an underwater volcanic eruption severed the island's only subsea communication cable, cutting the island off from the rest of the world.—
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Therefore Primate and its promising central character turns more into a typical slasher flick, repeatedly knocking off the swimsuit-wearing teens one by one, his specialty being yanking out jaws and other bloody grossouts.—
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Officer Alex Millan then yanked open the passenger door of the suspects’ car; at the same time, the car drove forward over the curb.—
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“Amputate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amputate. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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