Discuss

/dɪˈskʌs/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
3. (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.
4. (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.
5. (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.

Example Sentences

Let's sit down and discuss whether we should have a baby.

I don't wish to discuss this further.

Nym: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.

Pistol: Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?

When the preparations were finished, he invited me with—“Now, sir, bring forward your chair.” And we all, including the rustic youth, drew round the table: an austere silence prevailing while we discussed our meal.

We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.

In the first room we entered, a soldier and a man, like a clerk or dominie, were discussing a bottle of red wine; they immediately sprang up and politely proffered us each a bumper.

June 15, 1751, Samuel Johnson, letter in The Rambler The softness of my hands was secured by medicated gloves, and my bosom rubbed with a pomade prepared by my mother, of virtue to discuss pimples, and clear discolourations.

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• discusses
• discussing
• discussed

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