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[missdaredevil]

The word evil- brandished so often by George W. Bush and just as regularly scorned by those who oppose them-could use some serious *parsing*.
Even though I looked up its meaning in a dicitonary site. I still don't understand its meaning.

Thanks

2. analyze grammatical structure of sentence: to analyze and describe the grammatical structure of a sentence, or to be subject to this process of analysis and description

[pugachevV]

Although the writer has used the word parse what he really means is "analyse"i In other words, he is saying that the word evil is overused and often incorrectly.

[missdaredevil]

It might be difficult but could anyone use *parsing* in another sentence?

Thanks

[Bob S.]