anatomizes

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tr.v. a·nat·o·mized, a·nat·o·miz·ing, a·nat·o·miz·es

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

2. 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.

a·nato·mi·zation (-m

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anatomize, anatomise [əˈnætəˌmaɪz]

vb (tr)

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) to dissect (an animal or plant)

2. to examine in minute detail

anatomization , anatomisation n

anatomizer , anatomiser n

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Verb	1.	anatomize - dissect in order to analyze; "anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease" anatomise dissect - cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"
	2.	anatomize - analyze down to the smallest detail; "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior" analyse, analyze, examine, study, canvass, canvas - consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"

anatomize

verb examine, study, separate, divide, resolve, break down, analyse, dissolve, dissect, scrutinize a magazine devoted to anatomizing the inadequacies of liberalism

Translations

anatomize [əˈnætəmaɪz] VT (Bio) → anatomizar (fig) → analizar minuciosamente, diseccionar

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Proust anatomizes the cynicism that could be completely aware of Dreyfusl's innocence yet keep him jailed for years.

A retiree reads Proust and Montaigne by Cohen, Michael / Harvard Review

Measure for Measure frequently anatomizes within chiasmus aspects of judgment and mercy, legality and clemency, in a society in which those values become arbitrary and diffuse.

Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare's Problem Plays by Aasand, Hardin / Renaissance Quarterly

Lively's own life (she was born in 1933), and in her matchlessly spare prose she anatomizes the epochal changes that have transformed the English landscape and culture in those 70-odd years.

Consequences by Bookmarks

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