| Dissect 1. (v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; as, to dissect an animal; to dissect a situation; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. (v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely. Thesaurus Entries analyze, anatomize, assay, break down, break up, carve, cleave, cut, decompose, dichotomize, disjoin, disjoint, dissever, divide, part, penetrate, pierce, probe, reduce, reduce to elements, resolve, segment, separate, sever, slice, split, subdivide, sunder |