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reanalyse

reanalyse is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of reanalyze.

Meaning of reanalyze

Verb

reanalyze (third-person singular simple present reanalyzes, present participle reanalyzing, simple past and past participle reanalyzed)

  1. To analyze again.
  2. To analyze a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding.
    • "SOS" has, in contemporary usage, been reanalyzed to stand for "save our souls".

Forms of reanalyse

third-person singular presentreanalyses
present participlereanalysing
past participlereanalysed
pastreanalysed

Origin of reanalyse

From re- + analyse.

Words formed from reanalyse

Questions about reanalyse

What is reanalyse the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Reanalyse is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of reanalyze.

Words near reanalyse in the dictionary

  1. rean
  2. reanaesthetised
  3. reanaesthetize
  4. reanaesthetized
  5. reanalysable
  6. reanalyse
  7. reanalysed
  8. reanalyses
  9. reanalysing
  10. reanalysis
  11. reanalyzable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reanalyse (page history and authors); reanalyze (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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