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"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"3. break down into components or essential features;
"analyze today's financial market"4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment;
"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"