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1. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
   "analyse a sonnet by Shakespeare";
   - analyze [N. Amer], study, examine, canvass
    
2. Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
   "analyse a specimen";
   - analyze [N. Amer], break down, dissect, take apart
    
3. (psychiatry) subject to psychoanalytic treatment
   "I was analysed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist";
   - analyze [N. Amer], psychoanalyze [N. Amer], psychoanalyse [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: analysed, analysing

See also: break

Type of: care for, treat

Encyclopedia: Analyse