单词 | amputate |
释义 | amputatev. 1. gen. To cut or lop off, e.g. the branches of trees in pruning. Obs. exc. as a fig. use of 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop sneda800 shredc1000 crop?c1225 purgec1384 parea1398 shear1398 shridea1425 dodc1440 polla1449 twist1483 top1509 stow1513 lop1519 bough?1523 head?1523 poll-shred1530 prune1547 prime1565 twig1570 reform1574 disbranch1575 shroud1577 snathe1609 detruncate1623 amputate1638 abnodate1656 duba1661 to strip up1664 reprune1666 pollard1670 shrub1682 log1699 switch1811 limb1835 preen1847 to cut back1871 shrig1873 brash1950 summer prune1980 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off becarveOE carvec1000 hewc1000 shredc1275 cuta1300 chapc1325 cleavec1330 off-shearc1330 withscore1340 to cut offc1380 colea1400 slivea1400 to score awayc1400 abscisea1500 discidea1513 sharea1529 off-trenchc1530 off-hewc1540 pare1549 detrench1553 slice?1560 detrunk1566 sneck1578 resect1579 shred1580 curtail1594 off-chop1594 lop?1602 disbranch1608 abscind1610 snip1611 circumcise1613 desecate1623 discerpa1628 amputate1638 absciss1639 prescind1640 notch1820 1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) xii. 335 'Tis not impossible for a quick and fruitful branch to be amputated and cut off. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Amputate, to cut off; in gardening, to lop or prune. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. 268 The Government..finding this or that damaged part of the population, and immediately amputating it for removal. 2. [Hence, by specialization, the proper term for,] To cut off a limb or other part of an animal body. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > removal by surgical means > remove by surgical means [verb (transitive)] > cut away > amputate ampute1623 amputate1639 1639 [implied in: Woodall in Rees Cycl. (1803) The amputating of any member in the mortified part. (at amputating n.)]. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 19 Members amputated and divided from the Body. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vi. v, It was complained, that their surgeons were too active in amputating fractured members. 1764 T. Woolcombe Let. 25 June in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) (1771) 60 97 It was not now practicable to amputate. 1809 Wellington in Gen. Disp. IV. 328 Paget..was wounded in the right arm, which was amputated. 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 275 Two..sharks who would have amputated a baby's arm as soon as looked at it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online March 2011). < v.1638 |
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