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VIVISECT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they vivisect ... he / she / it vivisects
Past simple: vivisected
Past participle: vivisected
-ing form: vivisecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut (a body) open while still alive
Example:
people no longer vivisect animals--it's considered unethical
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "vivisect" is one way to...):
dissect (cut open or cut apart)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
vivisection (the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research))
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