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am⋅pu⋅tate

  [am-pyoo-teyt]
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–verb (used with object), -tat⋅ed, -tat⋅ing.
1. to cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
2. to prune, lop off, or remove: Because of space limitations the editor amputated the last two paragraphs of the news report.
3. Obsolete. to prune, as branches of trees.
Origin:
1630–40; < L amputātus pruned, trimmed (ptp. of amputāre), equiv. to am(bi) around (cf. ambi- ) + put- trim + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
am⋅pu⋅ta⋅tion, noun
am⋅pu⋅ta⋅tive, adjective
am⋅pu⋅ta⋅tor, noun
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am·pu·tate   (ām'pyŏŏ-tāt')   
tr.v.   am·pu·tat·ed, am·pu·tat·ing, am·pu·tates
To cut off (a projecting body part), especially by surgery.

[Latin amputāre, amputāt-, to cut around : am-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + putāre, to cut; see pau-2 in Indo-European roots.]
am'pu·ta'tion n., am'pu·ta'tor n.
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Amputation

Am`pu*ta"tion\, n. [L. amputatio: cf. F. amputation.] The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
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amputation 
1611, "a cutting off of tree branches, as in pruning," from L. amputationem (nom. amputatio), noun of action from amputare "to cut off, to prune," from am(bi)- "about" + putare "to prune, trim." Meaning "operation of cutting off a limb, etc., of a body" is attested from 1612. Amputate in this sense is from 1639. Derivative amputee first recorded 1910.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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amputation am·pu·ta·tion (ām'py&oobreve;-tā'shən)
n.

  1. Surgical removal of all or part of a limb, an organ, or projecting part or process of the body.
  2. Traumatic or spontaneous loss of a limb, organ, or part.

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