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Thesaurus: anatomize

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.

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  1. v. t. 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.
  2. v. t. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze.
  3. v. dissect in order to analyze
  4. v. analyze down to the smallest detail
  5. 1. 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. 2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume.
  6. v. dissect in order to analyze v. analyze down to the smallest detail