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How to pronounce “amputate”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of amputate with real speech in context.
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- Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look
to get rid of, to amputate their foreign-seeming body parts.
- Definition summary
- (obsolete) To cut off, to prune. [17th–18th c.]
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How to pronounce amputate
Where Does Your Sense of Self Come From? A Scientific Look

to get rid of, to amputate their foreign-seeming body parts.
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (obsolete) To cut off, to prune. [17th–18th c.]
- To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb. [from 17th c.]
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