dissect
verb (used with object)
to cut apart (an animal body, plant, etc.) to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like.
had dissected
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past perfectof dissect.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The trained teacher, 47, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, said she had dissected every inch to recreate it.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2022
Everyone else had dissected frogs or small mammals.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
In late August, Grow returned to visit Richard and Angie Saunders to tell them what Reuters had learned: Restore Life had dissected their son’s body and sold part of his spine.
From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2017
But neither of them had dissected a mammal larger than a rat.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
Dan Dalgard, for example, was a prime candidate for coming down with Marburg, because he had dissected that monkey.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
