Both Uses of
analyze
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- I analysed, if I remember, the psychology of a criminal before and after the crime.†
Chpt 3.5analysed = examined in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyzed.
- Her recent meeting with his mother and sister had left a great impression which she could not analyse.†
Chpt 4.4 *analyse = examine in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyze.
Definitions:
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(1)
(analyze) to examine and consider something in detail to better understand it
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, analyze may specifically mean to determine chemical components or to psychoanalyze. Very rarely, you may see the British spell analyzes as analyses--which Americans use as the plural spelling for analysis.