amputate

1. V-T 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. 截 (肢)

To save his life, doctors amputated his legs. 为了救他的命，医生们截去了他的双腿。

2. amputationN-VAR 截肢

He lived only hours after the amputation. 他在截肢后只活了几个小时。