Synonyms for anatomize


Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-nat-uh-mahyz
Phonetic Transcription : əˈnæt əˌmaɪz


Définition of anatomize

Origin :
  • "to dissect, investigate by dissection," early 15c., from Medieval Latin anatomizare or French anatomiser (16c.), from Greek anatomia (see anatomy). Related: Anatomized; anatomizing.
  • verb analyze
Example sentences :
  • I offer not to counsel them who meet in consultation for my body now, but I open my infirmities, I anatomize my body to them.
  • Extract from : « Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions » by John Donne
  • With them on it did he anatomize these bodie-wanting mots, Dulce puella malum est.
  • Extract from : « The Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton » by Thomas Nash
  • To probe the stars was to him a simpler process than to anatomize the globe upon which he stood.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, No. 97, January, 1876 » by Various
  • Her strangest mood of the tender cruelty was when the passion to anatomize him beset her.
  • Extract from : « The Tragic Comedians, Complete » by George Meredith
  • Old Burton will rise from his grave, if there be any virtue in Pythagoreanism, to anatomize these poems.
  • Extract from : « The Catholic World; Vol. IV.; October, 1866, to March, 1867. » by E. Rameur

Antonyms for anatomize

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