analyze

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 10.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To subject to analysis.
2. verb To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.

   analyze a problem

3. verb To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
4. verb To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

Similar words

study examine analyse take apart psychoanalyse psychoanalyze break down dissect analysis analytically

Often followed by

the and a it this their them your these

Word family

analyse analysed analyser analysers analyses analysing analysis analyst analysts analytic