discuss
/dɪˈskʌs/ verb A1- 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.
- To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
He/she/it discusses · Past discussed · Past participle discussed · -ing form discussing
Verb forms
- Base form
- discuss
- He/she/it
- discusses
- Past
- discussed
- Past participle
- discussed
- -ing form
- discussing
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Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, Rembrandt’s works, pictures, Waldteufel, wall paper, Chopin and Oolong.
Anne felt that she could not have borne it if she had not been going to the concert, for nothing else was discussed that day in school.
Sometimes the road went through woods where maples were beginning to hang out scarlet banners; sometimes it crossed rivers on bridges that made Anne’s flesh cringe with the old, half-delightful fear; sometimes it wound along a harbor shore and passed by a little cluster of weather-gray fishing huts; again it mounted to hills whence a far sweep of curving upland or misty-blue sky could be seen; but wherever it went there was much of interest to discuss.
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.
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