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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANAT'OMIZE, v.t. To dissect an animal; to divide into the constituent parts, for the purpose of examining each by itself; to lay open the interior structure of the parts of a body or subject; as, to anatomize an animal or plant; to anatomize an argument.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: dissect in order to analyze; "anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease" [syn: anatomize, anatomise]
2: analyze down to the smallest detail; "This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-mized; -mizing) Date: 15th century 1. to cut in pieces in order to display or examine the structure and use of the parts ; dissect 2. analyze

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 examine in detail. 2 dissect. Etymology: F anatomiser or med.L anatomizare f. anatomia (as ANATOMY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Anatomize A*nat"o*mize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anatomized; p. pr. & vb. n. Anatomizing.] [Cf. F. anatomiser.] 1. To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts. 2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. --Hume.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(anatomizes, anatomizing, anatomized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'anatomise' If you anatomise a subject or an issue, you examine it in great detail. (FORMAL) The magazine is devoted to anatomizing the inadequacies of liberalism. VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

adduce, analyze, assay, atomize, break down, break up, change, chop logic, circumstantiate, cite, decompose, descend to particulars, desynonymize, detail, difference, differentiate, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, dissect, distinguish, diversify, divide, document, enter into detail, give full particulars, individualize, individuate, instance, itemize, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, modify, particularize, personalize, reduce, reduce to elements, refine a distinction, resolve, segment, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, specialize, specify, spell out, split hairs, subdivide, substantiate, vary