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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vivisect .
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Examples
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Among other things, Pakistanis are made to feel guilty about the fact that they "vivisected" an intrinsically singular piece of land.
Pak Tea House 2009
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But, hell, she could be vivisected or executed before he ever did.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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The medical department at Kyushu University vivisected the captured crew of a B-29 bomber with University sanction on University grounds.
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It's a group effort in which the work of students is publicly vivisected by teacher and classmates, often at excruciating length—a trial that Professor X has found helpful with his own writing but that may not be the best pedagogical choice for those who are struggling.
A Little Learning Eric Felten 2011
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He had vivisected a cancerous liver, and was due to perform a prostatectomy on the half hour.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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To Regin, she said, You told me to kill the magister after you got vivisected.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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But these tropes are soon vivisected, examined and then sewn together into new things, as the best fiction of the bizarro genre often does.
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Regin was cuffed, shaking off the effects of poisonous gas, and on her way to be either interrogated or vivisected.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Tammy would hear intermittent reports from people she knew that Ripper was running wild on Burnt Mill Road, but she was sure that the dog kennel had sold Ripper to a vet school where she was vivisected.
February 1975 Lansing, MICHIGAN Michael K. White 2011
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Dixon had vivisected him, leaving a line of staples down his broad chest.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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