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amputate

/ˈæmpjʊteɪt/

amputate verb: to cut off, to prune.

Verb

amputate (third-person singular simple present amputates, present participle amputating, simple past and past participle amputated)

  1. (obsolete) To cut off, to prune.
  2. To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb.
    • The surgeon had to amputate the patient’s leg to save his life.
    • Several soldiers had limbs amputated after the battle.

amputate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

amputate in Tamil

துண்டி, வெட்டியெடு, வெட்டி எடு, வெட்டி நீக்கு

amputate in Urdu

کاٹ دینا, قلم کر دینا

amputate in Malayalam

മുറിച്ചുകളയുക, അറുത്തു കളയുക, അംഗം വെട്ടിമുറിക്കുക, അംഗച്ഛേദം ചെയ്യുക, അവയവം ഛേദിക്കുക

amputate in Kannada

ಅಂಗಚ್ಛೇದನ ಮಾಡು, ಅವಯವವನ್ನು ಕತ್ತರಿಸು, ತುಂಡಿಸು, ಕಡಿದು ತೆಗೆ
More languagesFewer languages
amputate in Tagalog
gapungin
amputate in Arabic
بَتَرَ batara

Forms of amputate

third-person singular presentamputates
present participleamputating
past participleamputated
pastamputated

Past tense of amputate: amputated

Origin of amputate

From Latin amputō (“prune, cut away”). 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.

Words formed from amputate

Questions about amputate

What does amputate mean?
Amputate means to cut off, to prune.
What is amputate in Tamil?
Amputate in Tamil is துண்டி, வெட்டியெடு, வெட்டி எடு. See Amputate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is amputate?
Amputate is a verb.
How do you pronounce amputate?
Amputate is pronounced /ˈæmpjʊteɪt/.
What is the past tense of amputate?
The past tense of amputate is amputated.

Words near amputate in the dictionary

  1. ampurta
  2. ampurtas
  3. ampusand
  4. ampusands
  5. ampussy
  6. amputate
  7. amputated
  8. amputates
  9. amputating
  10. amputation
  11. amputational

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amputate (page history and authors); amputate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amputate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amputate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amputate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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