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autopsying

autopsying is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about autopsying

What is autopsying the present participle and gerund of?
Autopsying is the present participle and gerund of autopsy.

Words near autopsying in the dictionary

  1. autopsychically
  2. autopsychoanalysis
  3. autopsychography
  4. autopsychological
  5. autopsychology
  6. autopsying
  7. autopterotic
  8. autopterotics
  9. autoptic
  10. autoptical
  11. autoptically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autopsying (page history and authors); autopsy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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