analyze
- Verb. (transitive) To subject to analysis.
- Verb. (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
- Verb. (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
- Verb. (transitive) 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.
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