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.