amputee
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- noun
- /ˌæmpjʊˈti/
- He's asking when you became an amputee, when you lost your leg.
- knee amputee
- double amputees
- limb amputees
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Watch on YouTubeHe's asking when you became an amputee, when you lost your leg.
- He's asking when you became an amputee, when you lost your leg.
- So Liam has started up this amputee football tournament.
- People get very uncomfortable being around amputees.
- She was a young girl, Marina, a double arm, double leg amputee that had never had any running prosthetics at all.
- So, you know, to be able to create a fund that will make that more widely accessible to other active minded amputees, I think it's pretty cool.
- You know, I, I sometimes get amputees, you know, in porn and.
- First, first amputee to double amputee to do it.
- It was a butcher shop with amputee legs and men that were really, really suffering.
Examples
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The guy, Engliss, became the first double amputee to scale Everest.
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"Making this technology safe for thousands of amputees is a sufficient challenge for me.
Fiction book (2002) -
And I wrote Robert how I thought a double arm amputee would be very limited action, very limited movement.
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And it's, you know, when I experience that, you know, and I say, well, I'm an amputee from cancer.
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So Liam has started up this amputee football tournament.
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Everyone had heard about amputees who could still feel their missing arms and legs.
Fiction book (1990) -
A war veteran in his 20s, an amputee, asked to go to the front of the line.
Academic text (1990) -
And in an instant, this vibrant little boy became a quadruple amputee and his life was changed forever.
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About 39 percent of amputees were female, and 61 percent were male.
Academic text (1991) -
After his accident, he learned to adapt to life as an amputee and became a motivational speaker.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word amputee comes from the verb amputate, which means 'to cut away', plus the ending -ee that names the person it happens to, as in employee. So an amputee is someone who has had a limb 'cut away'.