amputate
verb (used with object)
to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
amputates
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present tense formof amputate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness.
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
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
It amputates his imagination at its tap root.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
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
