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analyze

Dictionary definition · analyze

verb

  1. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning"analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"
  2. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features"analyze a specimen"
  3. break down into components or essential features"analyze today's financial market"
  4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).