To remove or cut off a limb or part of the body from a living organism; to amputate.
From Latin amputatus, past participle of amputare (am- 'about' + putare 'to prune, cut'). This is an archaic or rare variant of 'amputate.'
Medieval surgeons used 'ampulate' before modern surgeons shortened it to 'amputate'—watching English gradually trim its own vocabulary is like seeing language evolve in real time.
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