Definition of Discuss

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Discuss

To break to pieces; to shatter.

To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.

To shake; to put away; to finish.

To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.

To deal with, in eating or drinking.

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

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Discuss Quotations

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
Aaliyah

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Robert A. Heinlein

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H. L. Mencken

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Alfred Hitchcock

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz

I never discuss discussions.
Dag Hammarskjold

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington

Discuss Translations

discuss in Danish is behandle
discuss in Dutch is bespreken, discuteren
discuss in Finnish is pohtia
discuss in French is discutons, discutent, discuter, discutez
discuss in Latin is tracto, dissero, disputo, confero
discuss in Portuguese is discuta
discuss in Spanish is debatir, debatir, discutir, cuestionar
discuss in Swedish is diskutera, avhandla, diskutera

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