FLESH OUT
Dictionary entry overview: What does flesh out mean?
• FLESH OUT (verb)
The verb FLESH OUT has 3 senses:
1. make fat or plump
2. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
3. become round, plump, or shapely
Familiarity information: FLESH OUT used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FLESH OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Make fat or plump
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
flesh out; fatten up; fatten out; fatten; fat; plump out; plump; fill out
Context example:
We will plump out that poor starving child
Hypernyms (to "flesh out" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
"Flesh out" entails doing...:
feed; give (give food to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
lucubrate; elaborate; expound; expatiate; flesh out; exposit; dilate; enlarge; expand
Context example:
She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
Hypernyms (to "flesh out" is one way to...):
clarify; clear up; elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flesh out"):
detail (provide details for)
exposit; expound; set forth (state)
exemplify; illustrate; instance (clarify by giving an example of)
particularise; particularize; specialise; specialize; specify (be specific about)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Become round, plump, or shapely
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
flesh out; fill out; round
Context example:
The young woman is fleshing out
Hypernyms (to "flesh out" is one way to...):
gain; put on (increase (one's body weight))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
