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• a variation of analyze.

analyse

American  

[an-l-ahyz] / ˈæn lˌaɪz /

verb (used with object)

Chiefly British.

analysed, analysing

1. a variant of analyze.

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analyse British  

/ ˈænəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to examine in detail in order to discover meaning, essential features, etc

2. to break down into components or essential features

   to analyse a financial structure

3. to make a mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc, analysis of

4. another word for psychoanalyse

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Other Word Forms

• analysation
  noun
• analyser
  noun
• analysable
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of analyse

C17: back formation from _analysis

Explanation

To analyse (analyze is U.S. English) something is to consider it in detail so you can figure out its workings or meaning. Analyse comes from Greek roots meaning "loosen." If you analyse something, it's as if you're untying it and letting the different parts separate so that you can study them. If you've got some mystery substance, you can analyse it by performing chemical reactions to break it into its parts. If you analyse a poem, you look at it word-by-word and even sound-by-sound. But remember that analyse is a British spelling, with analyze as the American version.

Example Sentences

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analyse analysed analysing

AI usage is measured in "tokens", which are small chunks of text that AI systems use to understand, analyse and generate language.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

To understand why some underdogs have done well, it makes sense to analyse where others have, in contrast, been exploited.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

"The DA will use the win as part of their campaign but if you analyse it, they won with eight votes. It was a very tight contest," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The European Commission said the company had "failed to diligently identify, analyse and assess the systemic risks" of the products and the harm they could cause to consumers.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

However, it had not been my intention to analyse here the various facets of this small episode from years ago.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

"This Nvidia employee was identified as a person involved in the case after investigators analysed the relevant evidence following the previous round of searches targeting Super Micro," the source told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

We've analysed BBC iPlayer viewing figures to see where the tournament has been most popular.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Since 2020, South Korea has led growth in real average wealth per adult across the 56 analysed markets, with gains above 50 percent.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Of the nearly 850 cities in Europe analysed in the study, some 45 percent had broken -- or were expected to break -- their all-time heat stress records in June, the study said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

“Detecting! You have analysed, then. And what did you detect, if not gratitude?”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

For cultural commentator Coco, who goes by her first name and has amassed more than 100,000 followers on TikTok analysing Love Island, this reflects an important distinction.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

We estimated this by analysing whole-genome DNA to reconstruct when populations split and how much they exchanged genes in the past.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

He acknowledges that analysing sweat loss over short intervals up to 20 minutes long "can be challenging" but says his company's products appear effective for 30-minute, or longer, workouts.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Investigators "seized electronic data from the commission's servers and is now analysing the material obtained", he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Stokes also used a method, analogous to Newton’s method of crossed prisms, for the purpose of analysing the fluorescent light.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various