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
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
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
There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
Aaliyah
I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about.
Thabo Mbeki
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
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
I never discuss discussions.
Dag Hammarskjold
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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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