Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who amputates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who amputates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person who performs, or thing that causes, an
amputation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb
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Examples
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As soon as a shirt-tag was cut off, the amputator, flourishing it on the blade of his knife, like an Indian flaunting a scalp-lock, made a dash for the elm, where it was pinned up as a trophy.
Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905
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People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.
One Thousand Reasons 2009
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People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.
One Thousand Reasons 2009
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People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.
One Thousand Reasons 2009
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People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.
One Thousand Reasons 2009
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