Definitions for anatomize

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anatomize a·nat·o·mize

Spelling: [uh-nat-uh-mahyz]

IPA: /əˈnæt əˌmaɪz/

Anatomize is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 368 anagrams from letters in anatomize (aaeimnotz).

Definitions for anatomize

verb (used with object)

1. to cut apart (an animal or plant) to show or examine the position, structure, and relation of the parts; display the anatomy of; dissect.
2. to examine in great detail; analyze minutely:

Origin of anatomize

1400-50; late Middle English Middle French anatomiser or Medieval Latin anatomizāre. See anatomy, -ize

Examples for anatomize

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.

With them on it did he anatomize these bodie-wanting mots, Dulce puella malum est.

Her strangest mood of the tender cruelty was when the passion to anatomize him beset her.

Old Burton will rise from his grave, if there be any virtue in Pythagoreanism, to anatomize these poems.

To probe the stars was to him a simpler process than to anatomize the globe upon which he stood.