verb · transitive · rare

anatomize

ana·tom·ize

anatomize · anatomizes · anatomized · anatomizing

анатомировать, разанатомировать

To cut up or dissect, specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomyTo cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.

/əˈnætəmaɪz/

Meaning

6 senses

(British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, transitive)To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.
To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.
(British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, transitive)To punish (someone) by post mortem dissection following execution.
(British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, transitive)To cut up or dissect (a plant or one of its parts) to investigate its structure.
(British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, figuratively, transitive)To scrutinize (something) down to the most minute detail.
Near-synonyms: atomize, analyze
analyze down to the smallest detail
(British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To chemically analyse (a substance).
(British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, intransitive)To cut up or dissect the body of a human being or an animal.

Translations

3 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

(transitive) to cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal); (intransitive) to cut up or dissect the body of a human being or an animal — see also dissect:

Origin

From Late Middle English anatomisen, anatomien, anatomen (“to dissect in order to investig

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 ἀνᾰτέμνω (anătémnō, “to cut open”) (from ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, hew; to butcher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”))) + -η (-ē, suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, anatomy + -ize (suffix forming (chiefly similative) verbs).

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