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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of anatomize.

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Examples

  • I anatomized him in my cellar, slowly taking him apart as though, like the physicians of old, I might be able to find some as yet unsuspected fifth humor within him, some black and malignant thing responsible for his betrayal.

    On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

  • I anatomized him in my cellar, slowly taking him apart as though, like the physicians of old, I might be able to find some as yet unsuspected fifth humor within him, some black and malignant thing responsible for his betrayal.

    On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

  • I anatomized him in my cellar, slowly taking him apart as though, like the physicians of old, I might be able to find some as yet unsuspected fifth humor within him, some black and malignant thing responsible for his betrayal.

    On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

  • I anatomized him in my cellar, slowly taking him apart as though, like the physicians of old, I might be able to find some as yet unsuspected fifth humor within him, some black and malignant thing responsible for his betrayal.

    On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier John Connolly 2010

  • The novel reads like a compendium of every social evil breathlessly anatomized in every op-ed page over the past two decades.

    My Sister, My Love 2009

  • Emile Zola, in particular, anatomized our current era of irrational economic misery between 1871 and 1893, in his Rougon-Maquart series.

    Jane Smiley: Other Economists in the Room 2009

  • The novel reads like a compendium of every social evil breathlessly anatomized in every op-ed page over the past two decades.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • The novel reads like a compendium of every social evil breathlessly anatomized in every op-ed page over the past two decades.

    My Sister, My Love 2009

  • By the end, you realize the movie has slyly anatomized the class resentments of an entire community.

    Kidman's A Comedienne 2008

  • From 1898 until he died in 1927, he anatomized Old Paris right down to the doorknobs -- the book is the exact size of a Parisian cobblestone -- but as arranged, neighborhood by neighborhood, the photos comprise one of the great works of art of the last two centuries.

    All I Want For Christmas... 2008

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