† amˈputev.
Obs.—0
= amputate v.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > removal by surgical means > remove by surgical means [verb (transitive)] > cut away > amputate
ampute1623
amputate1639
1623 in H. Cockeram Eng. Dict.
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v.1623- as big as bull-beef
- as big as bullbeef
- as billy-be-damned
- as billybedamned
- as black as a crow
- as black as coal
- as black as one'a hat
- as black as one's hat
- as black as the ace of spades
- as black as the crook
- as black as the earl of hell's waistcoat
- as black in early use also swart as coal
- as black, or ugly, as sin
- as blithe as a laverock
- as blive
- as bold as brass
- as bright as a button
- as brouke i my chyn, eyes, heid
- as busy as a bee
- as busy as a hen with one chick
- as busy as a nailer
- as calm as a clock
- as calm as a millpond
- as camp as a row of tents
- as chance would have it