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Textual thesaurus for "flesh out"

(verb) fill out, round

become round, plump, or shapely

The young woman is fleshing out


(verb) lucubrate, dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, enlarge

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


(verb) plump, plump out, fill out, fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up

make fat or plump

We will plump out that poor starving child