verb
- Make fat or plump.
- usage: "We will plump out that poor starving child"
- 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"
- Become round, plump, or shapely.
- usage: "The young woman is fleshing out"
adjective
- Given substance or detail; completed.
- usage: "did not spring full-clad from his imagination"; "a plan fleshed out with statistics and details"
- synonyms: full-clad
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