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analyze

ana·lyze

UK/ˈæn.ə.laɪz/ US/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ fairly common us

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”
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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”
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3.

break down into components or essential features

  • “analyze today”
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4.

subject to psychoanalytic treatment

  • “I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist”
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Origin

Probably formed within English, by back-formation, or by haplology from analysis + -ize, or from Middle French analyser, from the noun analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).

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