anatomize
- v dissect in order to analyze
anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease - v analyze down to the smallest detail
This writer anatomized the depth of human behavior
- We came expecting an upscale approach that would anatomize the tawdry headlines and view the sordid spectacle from a remote, ironic height.
- Rabbit was a vulgar, crass, lusty, middle-class salesman whom Updike used to anatomize and dramatize the great American spiritual and cultural crises.
- Cinema, eternal celebrant of the stupid-funny car crash, is the ideal medium to anatomize America's fetishizing of the automobile.