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1. amputation
noun. ['ˌæmpjəˈteɪʃən'] a surgical removal of all or part of a limb.
Etymology
- -ion (English)
- amputate (English)
- amputo (Latin)
Rhymes with Amputation
- deinstitutionalization
- institutionalization
- self-congratulation
- antidiscrimination
- telecommunication
- nondiscrimination
- misrepresentation
- mischaracterization
- internationalization
- industrialization
- decriminalization
- transillumination
- self-determination
- renationalization
- recapitalization
- prestidigitation
- misinterpretation
- misidentification
- miscommunication
- experimentation
- excommunication
- disqualification
- discontinuation
- denationalization
- decentralization
- transplantation
- singularization
- self-perpetuation
- securitization
- reinterpretation
Sentences with amputation
1. Noun, singular or mass
If the cancer has not spread, this amputation can result in a cure.
Quotes about amputation
1. The death of a beloved is an amputation.
- C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
2. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
3. Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.
- David Mitchell, Slade House
