amputar

Tenía el talón podrido, y esperando que los cubanos le amputaran la pierna, él mismo se lo arrancó.	It was rotting and in the wait for the Cubans to amputate his leg, he pulled it off himself.
Me dijeron que, sin una cirugía, el daño se convertiría en osteomielitis, lo cual me llevaría a que amputaran el dedo, e incluso después de la cirugía, el daño a los nervios me impediría una recuperación perfecta.	Without an operation, I was told, the injury would turn into osteomyelitis, that I would have to have the little finger amputated, and that even after the surgery, the damage to the nerves would prevent a perfect recovery.
No amputarán a nadie.	No one's getting cut off.
Antes de que me amputaran las piernas, era un estudiante terrible.	Before my legs were amputated, I was a terrible student.
Cuando regresó a casa el 11 de enero de 2006, tomó la difícil decisión de hacer que le amputaran ambas piernas y ahora hace terapia física para aprender a caminar usando prótesis.	When he returned home on January 11, 2006, he made the difficult decision to have both legs amputated and is now undergoing physical therapy to learn how to walk using prosthetic legs.
Volvemos a encontrar las dotaciones malthusianas, por ejemplo para la agricultura: en efecto, los gastos de mercado se amputarán a ciegas en más de 500 millones de euros.	It includes Malthusian sums, for example for agriculture: indeed, market expenditure is going to be wilfully reduced by more than EUR 500 million.