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amputate  (amputates 3rd person present) (amputating present participle) (amputated past tense & past participle )To amputate someone's arm or leg means to cut all or part of it off in an operation because it is diseased or badly damaged.  verb 
To save his life, doctors amputated his legs...  V n 
He had to have one leg amputated above the knee.  have n V-ed 
 amputation    (amputations plural) n-var 
He lived only hours after the amputation.