Definition of "vivisect" []

• To perform vivisection on (a living animal). (verb-transitive)
• To practice vivisection. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Supposing it is true: why do aliens abduct and vivisect cows anyways?"
• "The next step would be to vivisect some actual wingnut brains."
• "Wolf Larsen looked curiously at him, as though about to probe and vivisect him, then changed his mind, as from the foregone conclusion that there was nothing there to probe."