analyze

Meanings

• 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"
• 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"
• 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"

Synonyms

analyse, break down, canvas, canvass, dissect, examine, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze, study, take apart