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

Derived forms: analyzes, analyzed, analyzing

Type of: care for, treat

Antonym: synthesize

Encyclopedia: Analyze