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discuss

/dɪˈskʌs/ verb A1
  1. To converse or debate concerning a particular topic. (transitive) · Let's sit down and discuss whether we should have a baby.· I don't wish to discuss this further.
  2. To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety. (transitive)

He/she/it discusses · Past discussed · Past participle discussed · -ing form discussing

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Verb forms

Base form
discuss
He/she/it
discusses
Past
discussed
Past participle
discussed
-ing form
discussing

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Billy sank his voice, as one who discusses great secrets of State.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 29 · B2
He talked and jested with the other girls, exchanged books and puzzles with them, discussed lessons and plans, sometimes walked home with one or the other of them from prayer meeting or Debating Club.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 252 · C1
The looks and behaviour of everybody they had seen were discussed, except of the person who had mostly engaged their attention.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 306 · B2
Dodd, it was not to discuss the science of observation that you called upon me this morning.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 2 · B2

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