analyse (v.)

  1. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare; analyze the evidence in a criminal trial; analyze your real motives

    [ Syn: analyze , study , examine , canvass , canvas ]

  2. break down into components or essential features; analyze todays financial market

    [ Syn: analyze ]

  3. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; analyze a specimen; analyze a sentence; analyze a chemical compound

    [ Syn: analyze , break down , dissect , take apart ]

  4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment; I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist

    [ Syn: analyze , psychoanalyze , psychoanalyse ]

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