amputate

Verb
  1. Remove surgically (synset 201257256)
    "amputate limbs"
    domain category: medicine, practice of medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
    entail: cut - separate with or as if with an instrument
    hypernym: remove, take, take away, withdraw - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
    hyponym: slough off - separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
    synonym: cut off

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