anatomize
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈnætəmaɪz/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb
anatomize (third-person singular simple present anatomizes, present participle anatomizing, simple past and past participle anatomized)
- (transitive) To inspect or investigate by dissection.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
- He did not care the least about Fanny now: he wondered how he ever should have cared: and according to his custom made an autopsy of that dead passion, and anatomised his own defunct sensation for his poor little nurse.
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- (transitive) To scrutinize down to the most minute detail.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], lines 130-32:
- I speak but brotherly
of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush
and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder.
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Translations
to inspect or investigate by dissection
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to scrutinize down to the most minute detail
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