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to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to ):
to analyze an argument.
to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of:
to analyze a poem.
to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc.
to subject to mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc., .
to :
a patient who has been analyzed by two therapists.
Contemporary Examples

Ramis made a lot of funny movies, including Animal House, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, and analyze This.
Harold Ramis’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Is About as Perfect as a Movie Gets Malcolm Jones February 24, 2014

analyze what the movie is calling for—not requiring, calling for.
Meet Alexandre Desplat, Hollywood’s Master Composer Andrew Romano February 10, 2014

At the analyze This press junket, a writer told the director that his niche had become “goofy redemption comedy.”
Harold Ramis’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Is About as Perfect as a Movie Gets Malcolm Jones February 24, 2014

Caddy Shack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and analyze This affirm it.
How Harold Ramis Invented Baby Boom Comedy With ‘Animal House’ P. J. O’Rourke February 26, 2014

Historical Examples

analyze myself, reproach myself, doubt my own sanity how I may, one thing is clear.
Ghetto Tragedies Israel Zangwill

analyze everything and everybody with which or whom you come in contact.
Thought-Culture William Walker Atkinson

analyze and know just what you suggest about yourself in print.
Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

analyze the peculiar contribution of Sorolla to modern painting.
Woman’s Club Work and Programs Caroline French Benton

analyze the first and second Massachusetts charters in Macdonald, pp. 22-84.
History of the United States Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

analyze the reading as to the use of pause and change of pitch.
Vocal Expression Katherine Jewell Everts

v.

c.1600, “to dissect,” from French analyser, from analyse (see analysis). Literature sense is attested from 1610s; meaning in chemistry dates from 1660s. General sense of “to examine closely” dates from 1809; psychological sense is from 1909. Related: Analyzed; analyzing.