anatomize
verb (used with object)
to cut apart (an animal or plant) to show or examine the position, structure, and relation of the parts; display the anatomy of; dissect.
anatomise
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a variation of
anatomize.
Example Sentences
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“Autumn” and “Winter”, the first two books in a quartet by Ali Smith, a Scottish author, try to anatomise the divisions of post-Brexit Britain.
From Economist ● Jul. 5, 2018
When the biographers come to anatomise this second chapter at Chelsea, I hope at least one of them considers entitling it something along the lines of: “Just Don’t Call It Shakespearean.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2015
Mostly, though, they feel like material worked up from magazine profiles or overambitious efforts to anatomise a nation through its celebrities.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2013
Few were more qualified than him to anatomise the nature of the country in which he told his stories.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2011
He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
