talk over

verb

talked over; talking over; talks over

transitive verb

: to review or consider in conversation : discuss

Synonyms of talk over

• discuss
• debate
• argue

Examples of talk over in a Sentence

your father and I will have to talk it over before agreeing to let you go on the class trip

Recent Examples on the Web

Despite this, the club’s talks over the mutual termination of his contract had been going on for several weeks, as reported by The Athletic. — Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Trump plans to revive talks over North Korea’s nuclear program and wants to meet with the pariah state’s dictator this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2026

As Childish Gambino says, this is America, and at its best moments the script captures the way this nation’s irreconcilable differences play out in arguments with people interrupting and talking over one another, all sides refusing to listen. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026

These relationships are all rooted in banter and talking over each other, which can start to sound very same-y and homogeneous. — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1734, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for talk over

• carryover
• changeover
• crossover
• cutover
• flashover
• hangover
• holdover
• layover
• leftover
• makeover
• moreover
• passover

Kids Definition

talk over

verb

: discuss sense 1