anatomize
Pronunciation: /əˈnætəmaɪz/
The English word “anatomize” has 6 meanings listed here.
verb
- To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.
- To punish (someone) by post mortem dissection following execution.
- To cut up or dissect (a plant or one of its parts) to investigate its structure.
- To scrutinize (something) down to the most minute detail.
- To chemically analyse (a substance).
- To cut up or dissect the body of a human being or an animal.
Etymology
From Late Middle English anatomisen, anatomien, anatomen (“to dissect in order to investigate”) borrowed from Middle French anatomiser (modern French anatomiser), or from its etymon Medieval Latin anatomizō, from Latin anatomia (“anatomy”) + -izō. Anatomia is derived from ἀνατομή (anatomḗ, “act of cutting up, dissection”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns); ἀνατομή (anatomḗ) is from…
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