Pronunciation Verb
discuss (discusses, present participle discussing; past and past participle discussed)
- (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
- Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.
- I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.
- (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 3:
- Nym: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene 1:
- Pistol: Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?
- circa 1597 William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 3:
- (obsolete, transitive) To break to pieces; to shatter.
- (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.
, Samuel White Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon: - We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.
- 1858, James Hogg, Titan (volume 27, page 306)
- 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.
- (transitive, legal) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
- (obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
- 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 […]
- 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.
- Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.i:
- French: discuter, s'entretenir sur, débattre
- German: diskutieren, besprechen, erörtern, debattieren
- Italian: dibattere
- Portuguese: discutir
- Russian: обсужда́ть
- Spanish: discutir, conversar
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