amputate
verb (used with object)
to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
has amputated
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present perfectof amputate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“Where’s the rest of me?” was Reagan’s most famous line, uttered in a film in which he wakes up to find that a sadistic doctor has amputated his legs.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
The Naval Air Service is inadequate; yet the Director of the Budget has amputated 60% of our requests for next year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before the war China's National Health Administration could boast of tiny gains toward improved public health, but war has amputated many of China's health facilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Modern skepticism has amputated God from the heart; but there is still a twinge where the arteries were sewn up.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
