amputates
- present tense form of amputate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
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
Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness.
From Time Magazine Archive
It amputates his imagination at its tap root.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley
Is the surgeon guilty of wrong who amputates a limb to preserve life?
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.
