analyze synonyms

analyze

v.

  1. To subject to analysis

    dissect, examine, investigate, separate, decompose, break down, break up, take apart, disintegrate, resolve into elements, determine the essential features of, decentralize, decompose into constituent parts, examine minutely, hydrolyze, anatomize, cut up, lay bare, electrolyze, dissolve, decompound, parse, X-ray, put under the microscope.

    Antonyms synthesize, compound*, fuse. *

  2. To study carefully

    probe, scrutinize, investigate, interpret; see examine 1, explain.

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