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
break down into components or essential features; analyze todays financial market
[ Syn: analyze ]
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 ]
subject to psychoanalytic treatment; I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
[ Syn: analyze , psychoanalyze , psychoanalyse ]