Discuss

Verb

 * 1)  To drive away, disperse, shake off.
 * 2) * 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 [...].
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
 * 2) * c. 1597 William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, sc. 3:
 * Nym: I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
 * 1) * c. 1599 William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, sc. 1:
 * Pistol: Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?

Adverbs for Discuss
animatedly; calmly; intellectually; glibly; heatedly; unreservedly; widely; exhaustively; seriously; despondently; enigmatically; gravely; academically; audibly; robustly; noisily; eagerly; languidly; critically; lucidly; penetratingly; brilliantly; masterfully; amiably; passionately; argumentatively; violently; vitriolically; challengingly; acutely; ethically; fruitfully; colorfully; extensively; elegantly; frankly; inconclusively; philosophically; protractedly; trivially; pertinently; acridly; reasonably; sympathetically; satisfyingly.

Synonyms for Discuss

 * debate, talk
 * argue, dispute, controvert, comment, explain, converse, confer, examine, analyze, wrangle.

Derived terms

 * discussant


 * discussion
 * discuss to death

Thesaurus
advise with, agitate, air, analyze, argue, bargain, call in, canvass, collogue, comment upon, compare notes, confer, confer with, consider, consult, consult with, controvert, counsel, criticize, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, deliberate upon, descant, discept, discourse, discourse about, discuss with, dispute, dissert, dissertate, examine, exchange observations, exchange views, go into, handle, have conversations, hold conference, inquire into, interpret, investigate, knock around, moot, negotiate, palaver, parley, pass under review, powwow, pro and con, put heads together, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, reason with, refer to, remark upon, review, sift, sit down together, sit down with, study, survey, take counsel, take up, take up with, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, thrash out, thresh out, toss, touch upon, treat, treat of, ventilate, write up

Etymology
From and  discusser (French: discuter) <  discussus:, past participle of discutere: < dis-: + quatere:.

Translations

 * Arabic: بحث
 * Bulgarian: разисквам,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 討論, 讨论
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: discussiëren, bediscussiëren, bepraten
 * Esperanto:, priparoli
 * Finnish:
 * French:, s'entretenir sur
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: विचार-विमर्श करना, बहस करना
 * Interlingua: discuter
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 議論, 論ずる
 * Korean: 토론
 * Malayalam: ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യുക
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: discutir
 * Portuguese: discutir
 * Russian:,  , дискутировать
 * Slovene: razpravljati, diskutirati
 * Spanish:
 * Swazi: kúcoca
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చర్చించు
 * Turkish: tartışmak
 * Ottoman Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese: thảo luận (討論)