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discuss verb [ dɪˈskʌs ]

• talk about (something) with a person or people.
• "I discussed the matter with my wife"
Similar: talk over, talk about, talk through, converse about, debate, confer about, put your heads together about, deliberate about, chew over, consider, exchange views on/about, weigh up, consider the pros and cons of, thrash out, argue, dispute, moot, air, ventilate, canvass, kick about, kick around, bat about, bat around,
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘dispel, disperse’, also ‘examine by argument’): from Latin discuss- ‘dashed to pieces’, later ‘investigated’, from the verb discutere, from dis- ‘apart’ + quatere ‘shake’.


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