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anatomize

[ uh-nat-uh-mahyz ]

verb (used with object)

anatomized, anatomizing.
  1. to cut apart (an animal or plant) to show or examine the position, structure, and relation of the parts; display the anatomy of; dissect.
  2. to examine in great detail; analyze minutely:

    The couple anatomized their new neighbor.



anatomize

/ əˈæəˌɪ /

verb

  1. to dissect (an animal or plant)
  2. to examine in minute detail
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԲٴˌ, noun
  • ˌԲٴdzˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·Բo·a· adjective
  • ·Բo··tDz noun
  • ·Բo·e noun
  • un·Բo·a· adjective
  • ܲa·Բo· adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of anatomize1

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French anatomiser or < Medieval Latin Բٴdz. See anatomy, -ize
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LuPone has two big numbers, both of which anatomize the ambivalence of married life: “The Little Things You Do Together” in the first act and “The Ladies Who Lunch” in the second.

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Over the last quarter-century, the book as physical organism has been increasingly anatomized, and there has been no better medium for displaying anatomists’ findings than the book itself.

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Though sartorial elegance is an instinct, as Mr. Cerruti suggested, it can be anatomized.

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The ambivalence of marriage is preserved in all its volatile disorder, but the social conditions, which Bergman patiently anatomizes in his version, are left vague.

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She has always had plenty to say about that, but now she is more interested in anatomizing all the forces that carved her into the woman she is today.

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