analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas -- (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")
analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart -- (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")
analyze, analyse -- (break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market")
analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse -- (subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist")
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