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v. To dissect (an animal or other organism) to study the structure and relation of the parts.

v. To analyze in minute detail: "Pynchon is the devil who went beyond the grave to anatomize the remains of the modern soul” ( Josephine Hendin). See Synonyms at analyze.

v. To inspect or investigate by dissection.

v. To scrutinize down to the most minute detail.

v. To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

v. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze.

To dissect, as a plant or an animal, for the purpose of showing the position, structure, and relation of the parts; display the anatomy of.

Figuratively, to analyze or examine minutely; consider point by point.

In chem., to make an analysis of.

To practise the art of dissection; pursue anatomy as an employment, a science, or an art.

Also spelled anatomise.

v. analyze down to the smallest detail

v. dissect in order to analyze

"I offer the following flim-flam to the examination of your readers, all of whom are, I presume, more or less, readers of Shakspeare, and far better qualified than I am to "anatomize" his writings, and "see what bred about his heart.""

anatomized    anatomizes    anatomizing   

analyze    canvass    examine    canvas    study   

analyze    dissect    hominisect    vivisect