discuss
pronunciation
How to pronounce discuss in British English:
UK [dɪˈskʌs]
How to pronounce discuss in American English:
US [dɪˈskʌs]
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- Verb:
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion
Word Origin
- discuss
- discuss: [14] The ultimate source of discuss meant ‘smash to pieces’. It comes from discuss-, the past participle stem of Latin discutere, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and quatere ‘shake’ (from which English also gets concussion and quash). Its literal meaning was ‘smash apart, break up’, and this gradually developed via ‘scatter, disperse’ to, in post-classical times, ‘investigate, examine’ and eventually ‘debate’.The apparently wide semantic discrepancy between ‘scatter, disperse’ and ‘examine’ was probably bridged by some such intermediate notion as ‘disperse or separate in the mind so as to distinguish and identify each component’.=> concussion, quash
- discuss (v.)
- mid-14c., "to examine, investigate," from Latin discuss-, past participle stem of discutere "to dash to pieces, agitate," in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin also "to discuss, investigate" (see discussion). Meaning "examine by argument, debate" is from mid-15c. Related: Discussed; discussing.
Example
- 1. We need time to discuss .
- 2. There is plenty to discuss .
- 3. Discuss what is really wrong .
- 4. They have much to discuss .
- 5. Some uzbeks discuss guerrilla resistance .