Definitions
To cut apart or examine something carefully in detail.
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin dissectus past participle of dissecare (“to cut asunder, cut up”), from dis- (“asunder”) + secare (“to cut”); see section.
Used in a sentence
“She was the first person in her class to properly dissect the sheep heart.”
“Academics tend to take Indigenous oral histories out of their contexts and dissect them according to Western disciplinary objectives and foci (see figure 1).”
“By focusing excessively on dissecting the text into 'forms' and exploring their supposed evolution, form criticism overlooks the larger literary and historical context within which these forms exist.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Cut apart for study”7 letters
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