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- verb Alternative spelling of
psychoanalyze .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb subject to psychoanalytic treatment
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Examples
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Demanding "psychological plausibility" in fictional characters means the author should give us the opportunity to "gossip about them and cheaply psychoanalyse them."
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We try to make sense of it the way we make sense of life, and by this route, look at the characters as though they're our friends, by which I mean: we gossip about them and cheaply psychoanalyse them.
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Like Jeff Daniels in The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg is self-absorbed with little self-awareness and with a high propensity to psychoanalyse others and offer solutions to their problems.
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They psychoanalyse me, they try to work out what's wrong with me.
More useless female journalism. Ms Robinson 2009
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They psychoanalyse me, they try to work out what's wrong with me.
Archive 2009-06-01 Ms Robinson 2009
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You can torture them, psychoanalyse them, give them aversion therapy the full Clockwork Orange treatment, totally disrupt their neurology with psychotropic drugs, even carve out pieces of their frontal lobes, and you won't do a thing to it.
Hmmmm...Brains.... Zoe Brain 2008
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I feel compelled by his work to psychoanalyse Lehmann as a highly detail-oriented fellow comrade that in this particular case got sucked into the trap of "terminological reification".
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Anthony Storr described his attempt to psychoanalyse Ranulph Fiennes as 'like stirring the void with a teaspoon'.
Archive 2007-10-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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Anthony Storr described his attempt to psychoanalyse Ranulph Fiennes as 'like stirring the void with a teaspoon'.
Teaspoonery Adam Roberts Project 2007
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It is also unusual in that it is richly leavened with humour among all the drama and tragedy - the farce of Sir Grummore and Sir Palomides seducing the Questing Beast while dressed as an exotic pantomime horse and then having to psychoanalyse her out of her crush is worthy of PG Wodehouse or Terry Pratchett.
Five favourite historical novels Carla 2006
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