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amputate

[am-pyoo-teyt] / ˈæm pjʊˌteɪt /


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After several months of treatment, zoo officials said the decision was made to amputate Crimson’s leg.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

Woodhall would amputate more than 100 limbs, plus “many hands, and fingers,” in the next 25 years.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 6, 2026

Not long after, she went through more procedures: one to amputate her damaged limb and another to cut through her neck to retrieve a fishing hook that had migrated to tissue outside the esophagus.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2026

She said the medical staff discussed whether to amputate her arm or fingers before deciding she should return to the UK due to the rising medical bills.

From BBC Feb. 21, 2025

“Before that, she had polio. Her right leg was shorter than her left. She wore long skirts to cover her legs. Eventually they had to amputate her right leg.”

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

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

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

It amputates his imagination at its tap root.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee

Is the surgeon guilty of wrong who amputates a limb to preserve life?

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth only months after a pioneering operation spared her from having her foot amputated.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 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

The 17-year-old has since had her leg amputated, joining hundreds more Venezuelans who lost limbs during the devastating twin tremors on June 24.

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

She ultimately had to have her flipper amputated, according to Jaros.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

The nubs wiggled like the remnants of amputated wings.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Once serious infection sets in, amputating a foot or limb may be the only option to save a patient’s life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

He even remembers a chilling discussion with senior doctors about amputating the damaged leg.

From BBC Mar. 15, 2024

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

Taking it away would be like amputating a leg.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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