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amputate

verb as in remove a limb

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Following a serious injury and life-threatening sepsis, she had her leg amputated and now uses a wheelchair.

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Jackson was hit by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1893 and had his arm amputated before he died.

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"If there's anything, I'll recognise him - my son's leg is amputated, and he has vitiligo... His hair is white. I'd know him," she added.

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The Taliban also introduced public executions for convicted murderers and punished thieves by amputating a hand.

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