"analyzing" in the verb sense
1. analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass
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. 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"
3. analyze, analyse
break down into components or essential features
"analyze today's financial market"
4. analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse
subject to psychoanalytic treatment
"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
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