Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who amputates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who amputates.

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  • noun The person who performs, or thing that causes, an amputation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb

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Examples

  • As soon as a shirt-tag was cut off, the amputator, flourishing it on the blade of his knife, like an Indian flaunting a scalp-lock, made a dash for the elm, where it was pinned up as a trophy.

    Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905

  • People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.

    One Thousand Reasons 2009

  • People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.

    One Thousand Reasons 2009

  • People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.

    One Thousand Reasons 2009

  • People said the same thing about Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's amputator-in-chief Charles Taylor.

    One Thousand Reasons 2009

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