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Definition of Anatomize

1. Verb. Dissect in order to analyze. "Anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease"

2. Verb. Analyze down to the smallest detail. "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior"

Definition of Anatomize

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.

Definition of Anatomize

1. Verb. To inspect or investigate by dissection. ¹

2. Verb. To scrutinize down to the most minute detail. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anatomize

1. [v -MIZED, -MIZING, -MIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anatomize

anatomically anatomicomedical anatomicopathological anatomicosurgical anatomies anatomiless anatomise anatomised anatomises anatomising

anatomism anatomist anatomists anatomization anatomizations anatomize (current term) anatomized anatomizer anatomizers anatomizes

anatomizing anatomy anatomy of function anatopism anatopisms anatotitan anatoxic anatoxin anatoxins anatreme

Literary usage of Anatomize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1836)
"The three precedent species are the subject of my present discourse, which I will anatomize, and treat of, through all their causes, symptômes, cures, ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"The three precedent species are the subject of my present discourse, which I will anatomize, and treat of, through all their causes, symptômes, cures, ..."

3. As You Like it by William Shakespeare (1908)
"I speak but brotherly of him; but, should I anatomize him to thee as he is, ... 139. anatomize. As the word is here used, it means 'unfold,' 'explain,' or ..."

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