dissect
verb (used with object)
to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
had been dissecting
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past perfect progressiveof dissect.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The cloth was spread at one end of the table and just beyond the cloth, at the farther end, was a human skull, with the necessary instruments, which the doctor had been dissecting.
From Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago by Robert Henderson McKay
He had been dissecting a skull; and by his side was a microscope with which he had been studying the grey matter of the brain.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
