discuss

1. (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.Examples: "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, treattransitive

2. (transitive, obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).Examples: "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?"obsoletetransitive

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

4. (obsolete, transitive, colloquial) To deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.Examples: "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."colloquialobsoletetransitive

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

6. (obsolete, transitive) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.Examples: "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."obsoletetransitive