discuss

verb

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   obsoleteTo communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

   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?

3. 3

   obsoleteTo break to pieces; to shatter.

4. 4

   obsoleteTo 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.

   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.

5. 5

   To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

6. 6

   obsoleteTo 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 […]

   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 ſhall bee given him, […]

   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.

   Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affliction.

Forms

past tense

discussed

past participle

discussed

present participle

discussing

third person singular

discusses