| VERB | contact | amputate, cut off | remove surgically |
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| Sounds | ae'mpyahtey.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Remove surgically. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | Did he amputate his foot? | |
| Example | "amputate limbs" | |
| Synonym | cut off | |
| 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 |
| Entails | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
| Narrower | slough off | Separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| Spanish | amputar | |
| Catalan | amputar | |
| Nouns | 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 | |
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