dissect
[verb]
Synonyms:
- cut up or apart, anatomize, dismember, lay open
- analyse, break down, explore, inspect, investigate, research, scrutinize, study

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Related Words: penetrate, pierce, probe

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dis‧sect /dɪˈsekt, daɪ-/ verb [transitive]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: dissectus, from secare 'to cut']

1. to cut up the body of a dead animal or person in order to study it

2. to examine something carefully in order to understand it:
books in which the lives of famous people are dissected

3. to divide an area of land into several smaller pieces:
fields dissected by small streams
—dissection /-ˈsekʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]

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