amputate

Etymology
From. The original sense of pruning (a tree, etc.) became obsolete. The OED considers uses related to anything other than an animal limb to be figurative uses of the modern sense.

Verb

 * 1)  To cut off, to prune. 1
 * 2) To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb.  1

Related terms

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Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: ампутава́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: amputar
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀποκόπτω
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: ампути́ра
 * Maori: pōuto
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic : ампути́рати
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: amputovať
 * Slovene: amputȋrati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gapungin
 * Turkish: ampüte etmek
 * Ukrainian: