Amputate
- v. t. To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)
- v. t. To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.