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Verb: analyse  'a-nu,lIz
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: analyze)
  1. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
    "analyse a sonnet by Shakespeare";
    - analyze [N. Amer], study, examine, canvass
     
  2. Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
    "analyse a specimen";
    - analyze [N. Amer], break down, dissect, take apart
     
  3. (psychiatry) subject to psychoanalytic treatment
    "I was analysed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist";
    - analyze [N. Amer], psychoanalyze [N. Amer], psychoanalyse [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: analysed, analysing

See also: break

Type of: care for, treat

Encyclopedia: Analyse