dissect
🇺🇸
/dɪˈsekt/
🇬🇧
/dɪˈsekt/
verb
R
To carefully cut apart a dead body, plant, or animal to study its insides.
In class, we dissected a frog to understand its organs.
R
To look at or talk about something very closely and in detail.
The teacher dissected the poem to show us its meaning.
R
To split something into smaller parts or sections.
The river dissects the valley into two parts.
translation
To carefully cut apart a dead body, plant, or animal to study its insides.; To look at or talk about something very closely and in detail.; To split something into smaller parts or sections.
Word Forms
3rd Present
dissects
Past
dissected
Perfect
dissected
Progressive
dissecting