Disgust vs Discuss - What's the difference?
disgust | discuss |
To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
(obsolete) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.i:
* Rambler
* Sir H. Wotton
To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
(obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
* , Merry Wives of Windsor , act 1, sc. 3:
* , Henry V , act 4, sc. 1:
To break to pieces; to shatter.
To deal with, in eating or drinking.
* Sir S. Baker
To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
As verbs the difference between disgust and discuss
is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while discuss is (obsolete|transitive) to drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.As a noun disgust
is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.disgust
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Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
Noun
(wikipedia disgust) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.
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(wikipedia discuss)Verb
- For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust , / And meet respect of honour put to flight
- a pomade of virtue to discuss pimples
- Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.
- Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.
- I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.
- Nym : I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.
- Pistol : Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?
- We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.