transcription, транскрипция: [ æmpjʊteɪt ]
( amputates, amputating, amputated)
To amputate someone’s arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.
To save his life, doctors amputated his legs...
He had to have one leg amputated above the knee.
VERB : V n , have n V-ed
• am‧pu‧ta‧tion
(amputations)
He lived only hours after the amputation.
N-VAR