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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, 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, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten]
3: become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out" [syn: round, flesh out, fill out]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you flesh out something such as a story or plan, you add details and more information to it. He talked with him for an hour and a half, fleshing out the details of his original five-minute account... PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P