- 1dissect something to cut up a dead person, an animal, or a plant in order to study it The biology students had to dissect a rat. dissecting instruments
- 2dissect something to study something closely and/or discuss it in great detail Her latest novel was dissected by the critics.
- 3dissect something to divide something into smaller pieces, areas, etc. The city is dissected by a network of old canals.
dissect
verbNAmE//dɪˈsɛkt//, NAmE//daɪˈsɛkt//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they dissect ,
he / she / it dissects ,
past simple dissected ,
-ing form dissecting ,
NAmE//dɪˈsɛkʃn//, NAmE//daɪˈsɛkʃn//
noun [uncountable, countable] anatomical dissection Your enjoyment of a novel can suffer from too much analysis and dissection.See dissect in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: dissect