Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: Few people are interested, and the frog dies.
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Dissecting
Synonyms for "dissecting" (22 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Noun(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
analytical technique
Strong matches (6)
Noun(6 words)
Related words (11)
Noun(11 words)
deconstructdeconstructivedissectiondissectionalsectionsectioningseveringtechnicaltextual analysisthoroughtissue analysis
Related word relations
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More general
12 entriesactivityanalysisanatomical procedurebiological procedurecritical analysisexaminationfigurative descriptorlinguistic analysismethodological descriptorprocesstechnical descriptortext analysis
More specific
23 entriesanimal dissectionargument analysisargument dissectioncadaver dissectionclause parsingconceptual breakdownconstituent analysiscontent analysisdata dissectiondissecting knifedissecting microscopedissecting scalpelmicrodissectionmorpheme analysisorgan dissectionphilosophical critique
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Collocations
17 entriesanatomical dissectioncadaver dissectiondissecting argumentsdissecting datadissecting forcepsdissecting knifedissecting microscopedissecting pinsdissecting sentencesdissecting specimensdissecting tabledissecting tissuesdissecting traydissection protocolsdissection techniqueshistology dissection
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Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
5 entriesSample sentences
10 total sentences available.
He enjoys engaging in macabre activities such as dissecting animal corpses and stalking people on the street at night.
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After all, he was a scientist, but mostly he liked dissecting innocent animals.
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Sometimes he spent his day at the chemical laboratory, sometimes in the dissecting rooms, and occasionally in long walks, which appeared to take him into the lowest portions of the city.
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