Synonyms of amputated

amputated

verb

past tense of amputate

as in severed

medical to remove (part of a person's body)

His arm was badly injured and had to be amputated.

Related Words

• severed
• yanked
• tore
• ripped
• cut (off)
• pulled
• grabbed
• extracted
• snatched
• wrenched
• dissevered
• jerked
• snapped (up)
• seized
• forced
• wrested
• uprooted
• nabbed
• pried
• nipped
• lopped (off)
• prized
• rooted (out)

Dissimilar Words

• reattached

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of amputated

With only 2 percent chance of survival, both of Purdy's legs were amputated below the knee. — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

Woodhall was born with fibula hemimelia, a shortening or nonexistence of the fibula bone, and his parents decided to have his legs amputated when the future Paralympian was 11 months old. — Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026

The stranger informs her matter-of-factly that Alice’s leg will be amputated unless Anna opts into her payment-plan bargain. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

In Cohen's case, his distal femur bone was amputated, and his tibia bone was rotated 180 degrees and fused with what remained of his femur. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026

Yevhenii Lakhnenko, a 46-year-old army serviceman who had his right arm and left leg amputated after being wounded last October, said swimming had been central to his recovery. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Eventually, gangrene set in and part of his foot had to be amputated. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026

The Broadway star endured mini-strokes, blood clots, septic infections and a tracheostomy before doctors amputated his right leg. — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026

In 2008 she was diagnosed with brain cancer, and her left leg was later amputated. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026