English > amputate: 1 sense > verb 1, contactMeaning | Remove surgically. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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Model | Did he amputate his foot? |
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Example | "amputate limbs" |
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Synonym | cut off |
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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 |
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Entails | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
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Narrower | slough off | Separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion |
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Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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Spanish | amputar |
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Catalan | amputar |
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Nouns | amputation | a surgical removal of all or part of a limb |
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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 |