| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| amputate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | am·pu·tate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m py -t t |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: am·pu·tat·ed, am·pu·tat·ing, am·pu·tates
To cut off (a projecting body part), especially by surgery. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin amputre, amputt-, to cut around : am-, ambi-, around; see ambi– + putre, to cut; see pau-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ampu·tation —NOUN
ampu·tator —NOUN
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