amputate

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

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

But the doctors in Gaza refused to amputate, hoping to save the foot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

“Of course, they may have to amputate Dad’s foot. Colonel Hopalong Meecham,” Mary Anne said.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness.

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

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

The surgeon, who amputates a leg to save the patient's life, does good, not evil.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

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

Among those taken in are a blind swan, an eagle with an amputated wing and a stork that suffered a concussion during an air attack.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

His nose was amputated and reconstructed with tissue from his ear and forehead.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

Later, doctors recommended amputating his left leg, his mother said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 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