amputate
Verb
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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 injuriesentail: cut - separate with or as if with an instrumenthypernym: remove, take, take away, withdraw - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstracthyponym: slough off - separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortionsynonym: cut off
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