Verb: flesh out
- Describe and explain in detail
"The professor fleshed out the theory for her students";
- elaborate, lucubrate [archaic], expatiate, exposit, enlarge, expand, expound, dilate
- Make fat or plump
"The farmer fleshed out the pigs for market";
- fatten, fat [archaic], fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
- Become round, plump, or shapely
"The young woman is fleshing out";
- round, fill out
Derived forms: fleshing out, fleshes out, fleshed out
Type of: alter, change, clarify, clear up, elucidate, gain, modify, put on