amputate (v.)
- annihilate
- ax
- ban
- bar
- bisect
- bob
- butcher
- carve
- chop
- cleave
- clip
- crop
- cull
- cut
- dichotomize
- dissever
- dock
- eliminate
- enucleate
- eradicate
- except
- excise
- exclude
- extinguish
- extirpate
- fissure
- gash
- hack
- halve
- hew
- incise
- isolate
- lance
- lop
- mutilate
- nip
- pare
- peel
- prune
- rend
- rive
- saw
- scissor
- sever
- shave
- shear
- slash
- slice
- slit
- snip
- split
- strip
- sunder
- tear
- truncate
- whittle
