analyze
(verb)
verb
1. 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
Similar word(s): analyse, canvass, examine, study
Definition categories: cognition
2. 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
Similar word(s): analyse, dissect
Definition categories: cognition
3. break down into components or essential features
- analyze today's financial market
Similar word(s): analyse
Definition categories: cognition
4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment
- I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
Similar word(s): analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze