discuss

Verb

discuss (third-person singular simple present discusses, present participle discussing, simple past and past participle discussed)

1. (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
   • Let's sit down and discuss whether we should have a baby.
   • I don't wish to discuss this further.

   Synonyms:

   bespeak, betalk, debate, talk about, treat

2. (obsolete, transitive) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
   • Nym: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • Pistol: Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

   Synonyms:

   apprise, impart, acquaint, advise, enlighten, inform, keep informed, let know, notify, tell

3. (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.

   Synonyms:

   busticate, fragment, splinter, toshiver

4. (colloquial, obsolete, transitive) To deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.
   • 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.1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
   • We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.1854, Samuel White Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon

   Synonyms:

   get outside, put away, consume, ingest, partake, touch

5. (transitive) 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.
   • For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust, / And meet respect of honour put to flight […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which...1635, James Guillimeau [i.e., Jacques Guillemeau], “Of Gripings and Fretting in the Belly, which Trouble Little Children”, in The Nvrsing of Children. Wherein is Set Downe the Ordering and Government...