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

Another patient in north Wales almost had the wrong toe removed during surgery to amputate two others.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024

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

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

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

The surgeon who amputates a limb, in order to save the life of his patient, acts upon the same principle.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

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

The Italian had both his legs amputated after a motor racing accident in 2001 at the Lausitzring track in Germany.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Then they took cartilage from the amputated foot and sculpted it around the bone to make me a nose.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

Taking it away would be like amputating a leg.

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