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amputate

[am-pyoo-tayt] / ˈæm pjʊˌteɪt /


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He did his best to amputate above the sickly parts in the hope of saving the patient’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Although he was given many stitches that night, veterinarians ultimately decided it would be necessary to amputate the leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

Days later she had to have surgery to amputate her leg above the knee.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

Shaymaa was rushed to Nasser Hospital, where doctors quickly decided to amputate.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

"They're not gonna amputate it, baby. They're gonna fix it," she assured her.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

Bustamante insisted that a voter could not remove the ink and vote more than once "unless he amputates a finger, and if he does, I'll be delighted to let him vote two times, even ten."

From Time Magazine Archive

Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gives them scene transplants or amputates a character or administers dialogue transfusions, but somehow these measures never restore these dramas to robust health.

From Time Magazine Archive

Etherized by the fascinations of pleasure, we are often unconscious of pain while the devil amputates the fingers, the feet and hands, or even the arms and legs of our character.

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden

He tries to kindle a fire When it's forty-five below; He aims to chop at a log And amputates his toe; He hobbles back to the shack And feebly cries out "yah"!

From Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

It is understood the letter was sent to Markle, 82, while he was in hospital in the Philippines after having his leg amputated.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

One parent told the news outlet that her 18-year-old daughter had to have her right foot amputated after her diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Relatives found Anderson Daniel Salcedo, 22, at Caracas's university hospital and alerted his mother, who immediately travelled to the Venezuelan capital, Reuters reported, only to find they had already amputated his legs.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

He had only one arm, the left having been amputated ten inches below the shoulder joint, so that he wore the sleeve of his coat pinned up with the cuff fastened to the elbow.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Instead of amputating her arm to stop the spread of cancer, as her doctors urged her to do, Milla turns to a severely restricted diet consisting primarily of juice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

Procedures that have been performed by staff at Al Shifa under such circumstances have included amputating limbs and fingers, stitching up serious wounds, and treating serious burns, said Abu Selmeyah, without elaborating.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2023

A staph infection meant amputating her left foot below the knee in 2017.

From Washington Times ● May 4, 2023

In 2012, his right hand had become so badly infected following years of gout that it required amputating.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2022

“Yeah, my big toe. If I wasn’t wearing shoes, they’d be amputating this toe sure as hell.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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