anatomize AmE
anatomise BrE

Anatomize me on the spot, and a surgeon would have found nothing there but love.

When the essay first appeared, it anatomized the code of a few.

Beauty could not quite anatomize the feeling this aroused in her.

What had I done, that each sensitive nerve was thus to be anatomized?

The intricate organism of the house and its people is anatomized only as one who has lived such a life could do it.

It was then brought to the Surgeon's Hall to be anatomized for a medical training college, a common practice at the time.

When he was a little boy he used to anatomize small birds and squirrels.

Despite pleading for mercy, she was sentenced to death and her body was to be anatomized.

The biographer's task is to reveal the work's emotional genesis, to anatomize the private and public events that brought it into being.

The struggle to create an original work is an everlasting one with most writers, and it is well anatomized here.

But what need I thus My well-known body to anatomize Among my household?

I cannot anatomize the emotion I felt.

The same sensibility comes across in the "behind the scenes" magazine and television stories that regularly anatomize the creation of starry images.

Acting, of course, can't really be anatomized with the precision that sports analysts bring to golf swings or tennis strokes.

Playing the role of foreign bumpkin gives him license to anatomize the national character on both sides of the Channel.

It seemed powerfully expressive as was his unobtrusive voice, and I was at a loss finally to fully anatomize why.

Then let them anatomize Regan.

Sometimes ominous, sometimes rapt, the music used computer control to anatomize and celebrate the piano itself - which is already a marvel of technology.

And we shouldn't be surprised when professors of literature choose to anatomize a "Bringing Up Baby."

Mr. Perry struggles gamely to anatomize his hero.

This actor's real genius is in how he uses exaggeration to anatomize a man for whom outer image and inner self were finally indistinguishable.

TO anatomize influence, you may well begin with its greatest denier, Baruch Spinoza.

By all means, try to squeeze into your social calendar the exquisitely sour, viciously drunken party anatomized by this play.

As anyone who saw her Medea of several seasons ago can testify, few actresses can anatomize anger with such intelligence and precision.

He set out to map the dark underside of the American ego just as Hemingway had anatomized American nerve.