flesh out meaning and definition

FLESH OUT verb

Definition of flesh out (verb)

1. make fat or plump
   • "We will plump out that poor starving child"
   • synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, plump, plump out
2. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
   • "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
   • synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, lucubrate
   • antonym: abbreviate
3. become round, plump, or shapely
   • "The young woman is fleshing out"
   • synonyms: fill out, round