amputate
verb (used with object)
to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
amputated
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past participleof amputate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof amputate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
amputateverb (used with object)to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
Example Sentences
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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
One parent told the news outlet that her 18-year-old daughter had to have her right foot amputated after her diagnosis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Relatives found Anderson Daniel Salcedo, 22, at Caracas's university hospital and alerted his mother, who immediately travelled to the Venezuelan capital, Reuters reported, only to find they had already amputated his legs.
From BBC ● Jul. 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
