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Definition of dissect : 1. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
2. To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

Synonyms:

go, deconstruct, dismember, discerp, detection, check, chromatography, die, psychoanalyze, go bad, snap, detect, resolve, double-blind, review, give out, analyse, crush, inspect, operate, lose it, quarter, collapse, animal rights, take apart, tumble, fail, canvas, canvass, break down, crumple, break apart, investigate, conk out, scrutinize, control, biopiracy, monitor, psychoanalyse, go over, assemble, give way, empirical, break up, check over

assay, examine, anatomize, analyze, sift, winnow, study

divide, incise, axe, sever, sunder, slice, disaffiliate, unfix, disengage, split, disintegrate, estrange, alienate, remove, cut, dissociate, disunite, disarticulate, insulate, cleave, fragment, bisect, detach, amputate, disconnect, divorce, break, part, rend, unglue, halve, separate, dismantle, disassociate, rip, excise, disassemble, segregate, uncouple, pare, scissor, unhinge, disjoin

decay, spoil, dissolve, rot, fracture, mortify, turn, rupture, putrefy, shatter, crumble, decompose, degenerate

Usage examples:

• But I might as well try to dissect a storm, and write the gusts of a tempest, as to describe all the waves of passion in that fluctuating and agonized heart: the feelings and the agitation of a life were crowded into those few hours, during which she awaited the lover she had lost. - "Put Yourself in His Place", Charles Reade.
• Now it might seem to the desultory reader that to take the lancet and cut into this alluring voice quality would be to dissect a butterfly wing and so destroy its charm. - "The Art of Public Speaking", Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein.
• This liberal- minded churchman put a room at his disposal, and allowed him to dissect dead bodies. - "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti", John Addington Symonds.