VERB
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make fat or plump
We will plump out that poor starving child -
become round, plump, or shapely
The young woman is fleshing out -
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
How To Use flesh out In A Sentence
- Normally in a documentary, writers and historians deliver overlapping soundbites that flesh out a central argument. Times, Sunday Times
- Where synth-pop traditionally makes a virtue of treble and plasticity, the Killers flesh out their songs with big rock dynamics and - on ‘All These Things That I've Done’ - a gospel choir.
- The answer my book will flesh out in gory detail: signaling. The Education of Educators, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- One ripped a piece of flesh out from my armpit.
- Analysts figure there will be more such small, strategic buyouts this year as companies flesh out their portfolios.
- Does anyone have any suggestions for reading material to flesh out a research methodology?
- The sharp writing also helped to flesh out the relationships, so that the usual sitcom clichés of misunderstandings and misconstructions could be jettisoned in favour of strong, albeit basic, plots based on recognisable situations.
- Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils.
- The text is deliberately sketchy, if not embryonic, and the rest is up to the director, designers, and, especially, actors to flesh out.
- In his desire to flesh out the documentary bones, Mr Phillips is inclined to make statements such as: ‘Groups of friends conversed; young males sought the attention of young females with varying degrees of ribaldry.’
