1. amputation

noun. ['ˌæmpjəˈteɪʃən'] a surgical removal of all or part of a limb.

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

2. amputation

noun. ['ˌæmpjəˈteɪʃən'] a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs.