psychoanalyze

especially British, psy·cho·an·a·lyse

[sahy-koh-an-l-ahyz]

verb (used with object)

psychoanalyzed, psychoanalyzing 

1. to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.

Other Word Forms

• psychoanalyzer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of psychoanalyze¹

First recorded in 1910–15; psycho- + analyze

Example Sentences

“I don’t psychoanalyze my sources,” he says by phone from Washington, D.C., where he has long been based.

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There are lots of good reasons for not psychoanalyzing politicians.

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And psychoanalyze all the movies on a Freudian level.

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For me, it's about kind of psychoanalyzing and getting into why exactly she's the way she is.

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So you can imagine, she’s now being psychoanalyzed by the psychiatrist who worked on the Boston Strangler case.

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