- 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"
- break down into components or essential features;
"analyze today's financial market"
- 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"
- subject to psychoanalytic treatment;
"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
