amputate

Her husband, Phil, has said that surgeons had been forced to amputate both her legs in an effort to save her.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

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

The decision was then taken to amputate below his right knee, a procedure which took place on 2 June.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

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

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

All of us were amputates, or seriously wounded.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles Augustus Fuller

It amputates his imagination at its tap root.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee

Sources close to the duchess said Meghan warned Markle in a letter - sent while he was in hospital in the Philippines after having his leg amputated - that he would never meet his grandchildren.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

He recalled visiting his mother in the hospital during her illness, describing how she hid her leg under a blanket and joked that doctors had mistakenly amputated it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Following his helicopter evacuation from the Western Cwm, Beck had his right arm amputated halfway below the elbow.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

That meant amputating the foot and the bottom of the leg, and fitting me with a prosthesis—an artificial leg.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge