ANATOMISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anatomise mean? 

• ANATOMISE (verb)
  The verb ANATOMISE has 1 sense:

1. dissect in order to analyze

  Familiarity information: ANATOMISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANATOMISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they anatomise    ... he / she / it anatomises   
Past simple: anatomised   
Past participle: anatomised   
-ing form: anatomising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dissect in order to analyze

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

anatomise; anatomize

Context example:

anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease

Hypernyms (to "anatomise" is one way to...):

dissect (cut open or cut apart)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

anatomy (a detailed analysis)

anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

 Context examples 

He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)