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autopsied

autopsied is the simple past and past participle of autopsy.

Meaning of autopsy

Verb

autopsy (third-person singular simple present autopsies, present participle autopsying, simple past and past participle autopsied)

  1. (transitive) To perform an autopsy on.
  2. (transitive) To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
    • The user may define his own errors, and use DUMPAL to autopsy the system for him.1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)

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Words formed from autopsied

Questions about autopsied

What is autopsied the simple past and past participle of?
Autopsied is the simple past and past participle of autopsy.

Words near autopsied in the dictionary

  1. autoprotonization
  2. autoprotonizations
  3. autopsia
  4. autopsic
  5. autopsical
  6. autopsied
  7. autopsier
  8. autopsiers
  9. autopsies
  10. autopsist
  11. autopsists

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