discuss

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To speak with another or others about; talk over.
• intransitive verb To examine or consider (a subject) in speech or writing.
• intransitive verb To speak with another or others about something.
• intransitive verb To examine or consider a subject in speech or writing.
• intransitive verb To come to an agreement as a result of a discussion.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To shake or strike asunder; break up; disperse; scatter.
• To shake off; put away.
• To examine; consider and declare one's opinion concerning; hence, to explain; declare; speak about.
• To agitate; debate; argue about; reason upon; sift the considerations for and against.
• Hence To examine or investigate the quality of by consuming, as something to eat or drink: as, to discuss a fowl; to discuss a bottle of wine.
• In civil law, to exhaust legal proceedings against for debt, as the actual debtor or his property, before proceeding against the property of a person secondarily liable for the debt. See benefit of discussion, under discussion.
• In French-Canadian law, to procure the sale of (the property of a debtor) by due process of law and apply the proceeds toward the payment of the debt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To break to pieces; to shatter.
• transitive verb archaic To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.
• transitive verb obsolete To shake; to put away; to finish.
• transitive verb To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.
• transitive verb colloq. To deal with, in eating or drinking.
• transitive verb (Law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb obsolete, transitive To drive away, disperse, shake off.
• verb transitive To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
• verb transitive, obsolete To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb to consider or examine in speech or writing
• verb speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion