analyze - English dictionary definition

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1. Analyze  To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
2. analyze  subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"