discuss vs confabulate

discuss and confabulate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
discuss	No	No	Yes	No
confabulate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, confabulate is a hyponym of discuss; that is, confabulate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than discuss:

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

discuss (verb)	confabulate (verb)
speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion	talk socially without exchanging too much information
to consider or examine in speech or writing	have a conference in order to talk something over
	unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory