dissect

4 definitions • 4 examples

to cut open something, especially a dead body or a plant, and study its structure:

In biology classes we used to dissect rats.

to examine or consider something in detail:

He's the kind of person who watches a movie and then dissects it for hours.

to cut apart the body of an animal or plant in order to study its structure:

We had to dissect a frog in our biology class.

To dissect is also to examine something in detail:

The more experts dissect his tax revision plan, the more inconsistencies turn up.