Read full poem →Must learn by my being cut up and torn,
Kill, and dissect me, Love; for this
Torture against thine own end is;
Dictionary Entry
To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
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. dissectaway dissectdissect carefully
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Poetry examples for “dissect”
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Read full poem →Misshapes the beauteous forms of things;
--We murder to dissect.
Read full poem →things. The only time I jumped was when I leaned my elbow on
Buddy's cadaver’s stomach to watch him dissect a lung. After a
minute or two I felt this burning sensation in my elbow and it
Read full poem →Misshapes the beauteous forms of things;
--We murder to dissect.