dissected
Speech parts
1. dissected - Adjective
3. dissected - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Dissect
Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.
Petronius once told me that pathological murderers tend to start their killing sprees while they are children. Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.