Analyze Definition & Meaning

analyze
verb
  1. 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"
  2. 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"
  3. break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market"
  4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"

"Analyze" in song lyrics

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  • "5'6'' with brown eyes, a ghetto love I analyze"
    9th Prince — Honeycomb
  • "See for yourself and tell me what you analyze"
    Water World
  • "Son we want to visualize picture, analyze"
    Cormega f/ Mobb Deep — Crime Connection

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