Entry Word: analyze

Function: verb

Meaning: to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships <analyze the park's ecosystem before deciding whether hunting should be allowed>

Synonyms anatomize, assay, break down, dissect

Related Words assess, evaluate, examine, inspect, investigate, scrutinize; arrange, assort, catalog (or catalogue), categorize, classify, codify, diagram, index, order, schematize, sort, tabulate; divide, reduce, segment, separate, subdivide

Near Antonyms agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assimilate, coalesce, conglomerate, consolidate, integrate, synthesize, unify