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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
amputate .
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Examples
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ZippyDSMlee: JD: "amputates"? the hell? did I do that?
GamePolitics News 2010
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Some of this year's big nominees aren't easy sells as crowd-pleasers, such as the psycho-sexual thriller "Black Swan" or "127 Hours," in which a trapped hiker amputates his arm, or "Winter's Bone," about a troubled family in the Ozarks.
Oscar Doesn't Always Mean Sales Ethan Smith 2011
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New villain on rounds: Peter McNicol as the snippy new peds attending who nearly amputates a kid's leg unnecessarily.
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So if Dr. Jones down the street misreads a chart and accidently amputates the wrong limb (it's happened) he suddenly has more rights than the poor sap on the table?
White House unveils $25 million medical malpractice initiative 2009
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If a clinic loses money each time it counsels a patient to control type 2 diabetes with diet and exercise, but makes a hefty profit when it amputates a foot riddled with diabetic ulcers, how long will it continue to emphasize the former?
Dr. Andrew Weil: Fear, Greed and X-Rays Dr. Andrew Weil 2010
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If a clinic loses money each time it counsels a patient to control type 2 diabetes with diet and exercise, but makes a hefty profit when it amputates a foot riddled with diabetic ulcers, how long will it continue to emphasize the former?
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If a clinic loses money each time it counsels a patient to control type 2 diabetes with diet and exercise, but makes a hefty profit when it amputates a foot riddled with diabetic ulcers, how long will it continue to emphasize the former?
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The bullet almost amputates his leg. The combination of wounds, to his upper and lower body, sucks the life out of him, and he drops his rifle and falls to the ground.
Thirst No. 3 Christopher Pike 2010
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According to Fosse and his colleague Mads Gilbert, the weapon typically amputates or tears apart lower limbs and patients often do not survive.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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The willingness to torture, to mislead, to evade Constitutional obligations, to wiretap clearly amputates any and all authority, as the power to govern is seated in and derives from, the people.
Obama On FISA: Telecom Immunity Issue Doesn't Override National Security 2009
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