a 1 m 3 p 3 u 1 t 1 a 1 t 1 e 1
8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb remove surgically
originFrom 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.
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