amputate

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vt. 切断, 删除

发音

US /ˈæmpjʊteɪt/

词形变化

amputated amputates 三单 amputates amputating amputating 现在分词 amputated 过去式 amputated 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

截肢；切断；删除

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To cut off, to prune.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb.

    截肢

    切断

    The surgeon had to amputate the patient’s leg to save his life.

    Several soldiers had limbs amputated after the battle.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

cut off

上位词 6

take pull remove withdraw take away take off

下位词 1

slough off

词源

From 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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