What is the meaning of flesh out?

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

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APA	WordNet. (2010). flesh out. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/flesh_out/definitions/1276537
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