confer vs talk over

confer and talk over both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
confer	No	No	Yes	No
talk over	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, talk over is a hypernym of confer; that is, talk over is a word with a broader meaning than confer:

confer: have a conference in order to talk something over
talk over: speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion

Other hypernyms of confer include discuss, hash out.

confer (verb)	talk over (verb)
have a conference in order to talk something over	speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion
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