Dictionary definition · analyze
verb
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning"analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features"analyze a specimen"
- break down into components or essential features"analyze today's financial market"
- subject to psychoanalytic treatment"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).