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amputated

/am-pyoo-teyt/US // ˈæm pyʊˌteɪt //UK // (ˈæmpjʊˌteɪt) //

被切除的,被截肢的,被截肢,被截断的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    am·pu·tat·ed, am·pu·tat·ing.

    • : to cut off, as by surgery.
    • : to prune, lop off, or remove: Because of space limitations the editor amputated the last two paragraphs of the news report.
    • : Obsolete. to prune, as branches of trees.

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Examples

  • As they investigate the secret behind the hypnotic television signal, Mono and Six visit a school full of feral children and a hospital where prosthetic limbs overflow storage bins like so many amputated doll parts.

  • Eventually she had to have both limbs amputated above the knee.

  • Nerve cells in amputated spider legs responded to the wide range of frequencies.

  • Her front leg had been amputated to stop the cancer from spreading.

  • Their commander is a serious man with his left arm amputated just below the elbow.

  • He was removed to the rear, and the doctors decided that it was necessary to amputate the right leg.

  • Will it cripple you seriously to lose that hand; because Im afraid theyll have to amputate when you go down.

  • The thing necessary was to amputate the gangrened limb, and so prevent the disease from attacking the whole body.

  • True, her right leg was broken, and it had been necessary to amputate her left foot in order to save her life.

  • For a moment she had a passing dream that some one was trying to amputate her hand with a wood-saw, then it all came back to her.