Definition of "amputate" []

• To cut off (a projecting body part), especially by surgery. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Workers were told to tightly wrap the teat with an elastic band in order to "amputate" it."
• "Th 'dern doctor wanted t' amputate 'm, an' Bill, he raised a heluva row, I hear."
• "Three fingers was crunched. Th 'dern doctor wanted t' amputate 'm, an' Bill, he raised a heluva row, I hear."