analyze definition

1. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
• examples: analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare
• examples: analyze the evidence in a criminal trial
• examples: analyze your real motives
2. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
• examples: analyze a specimen
• examples: analyze a sentence
• examples: analyze a chemical compound
3. break down into components or essential features
• examples: analyze today's financial market
4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment
• examples: I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist