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amputate

am·pu·tate

UK/ˈæmpjʊteɪt/ US/ˈæmpjʌˌteɪt/ uncommon obsolete

verb

1.

remove surgically

  • “amputate limbs”
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Origin

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.

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