amputate

Meaning

Verb

To cut off, to prune.
To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb.

Origin

From Latin amputō. 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.

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