analyze Definition

analyse
analyze
verb analysed, analysing

1. To examine the structure or content of something in detail, eg to examine data in order to discover the general principles underlying a particular phenomenon.

Thesaurus: examine, investigate, scrutinize, study, evaluate, dissect, consider, test, reduce.
2. To resolve or separate something into its component parts.
3. To detect and identify the different chemical compounds present in (a mixture), or to determine the relative proportions of the different components in (a mixture).
4. To psychoanalyse someone.

Etymology: 18c: from Greek ana up + lyein to loosen.