AMPUTATED Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

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.

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reattached

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Recent Examples of amputated 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 Thomas had his foot amputated following his accident and is the first person to compete on The Challenge with a prosthetic limb. — Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 In 2008 she was diagnosed with brain cancer, and her left leg was later amputated. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026 Kloots documented his entire stay on social media, even as Cordero had his leg amputated because of blood clots. — Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026 Burke allegedly amputated two of Hernandez’s fingers after dismembering her body with a chainsaw to cover up evidence of the tattoo linking the two. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026

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severed

Verb

Across the Sahel region, a vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert, militaries that grabbed power citing security failures have severed ties with longtime Western security allies and turned to Russia.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Are the social lives of cartoons and people completely severed?

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of severed

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