Both Uses
analyze
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Girl Interrupted
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- Freud said psychotics were unanalyzable because they couldn't distinguish between fantasy and reality (tiger vs. bureau), and analysis works on precisely that distinction.†
*unanalyzable = not capable of being better understood through detailed examinationstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unanalyzable means not and reverses the meaning of analyzable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- This brain is bollixed up about reality and I can't analyze it.†
analyze = examine
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) 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.