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Adjective: analysed  'a-nu,lIzd
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: analyzed)
  1. Examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts
    "the analysed data indicated surprising trends"; "a carefully analysed poem can be like a dead butterfly pinned to a board";
    - analyzed [N. Amer]
Verb: analyse  'a-nu,lIz
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: analyze)
  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]

Type of: act, care for, consider, move, reckon, regard, see, treat, view

Antonym: synthesise [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Analyse