dissected; dissecting; dissects
1
: to separate into pieces : expose the several parts of (something, such as an animal) for scientific examination
dissect an earthworm
dissecting flowers
2
: to analyze and interpret minutely
dissect a problem
: to make a dissection
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Examples of dissect in a Sentence
We dissected a frog in science class.
She dissected each point of his argument.
We dissected the poem in class.
The city is dissected by a network of highways.
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Jason Barlow, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024
For reasons that have been dissected for years now, half of our country has become so angry and radicalized that this movement towards a repressive and exclusionary authoritarianism will not be defeated this November.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
The 2024 trial of Karen Read, a Massachusetts woman accused of running over her boyfriend with a car, also became a fixation on the app, with true crime accounts raking in millions of views by dissecting testimony and trial evidence.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
The Mad Max: Fury Road star sat down with Entertainment Weekly to dissect Venom fan theories alongside Kelly Marcel, director of Venom: The Last Dance and writer of all three films in the trilogy.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Dissect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissect. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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Medical Definition
dissect
transitive verb
dis·sect
dis-ˈekt; dī-ˈsekt 
ˈdī-ˌ
ˈdī-ˌ
: to cut so as to separate into pieces or to expose the several parts of (as an animal or a cadaver) for scientific examination
specifically
: to separate or follow along natural lines of cleavage (as through connective tissue)
dissect out the regional lymph nodes
a dissecting aneurysm
: to make a medical dissection
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