discussverb/dɪˈskʌs/

• 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

  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

  obsoleteTo break to pieces; to shatter.

• 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.
• 5

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

• 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, […]