flesh out
v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: fatten, fat, fill out, plump, plump
out, fatten out, fatten up]
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"
[syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge,
expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abridge]
3: become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is
fleshing out" [syn: round, fill out]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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