amputate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
Definition of amputate
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete)To cut off, to prune.
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verb
- (obsolete)To cut off, to prune.
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To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb.
“The surgeon had to amputate the patient’s leg to save his life.”
“Several soldiers had limbs amputated after the battle.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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.
Words you can make from amputate
81 playable · top: TAPETUM (11 pts)
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2 words5-letter words
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25 words3-letter words
34 words- AMP 7 pts
- MAP 7 pts
- PAM 7 pts
- UMP 7 pts
- AMA 5 pts
- AMU 5 pts
- APE 5 pts
- APT 5 pts
- EMU 5 pts
- MAE 5 pts
- MAT 5 pts
- MET 5 pts
- MUT 5 pts
- PAT 5 pts
- PEA 5 pts
- PET 5 pts
- PUT 5 pts
- TAM 5 pts
- TAP 5 pts
- TUM 5 pts
- TUP 5 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- ATT 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- EAU 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TAT 3 pts
- TAU 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TET 3 pts
- TUT 3 pts
- UTA 3 pts
- UTE 3 pts
2-letter words
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