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English Dictionary: flesh out by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flesh out
v
  1. make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
    Antonym(s): abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten
  3. become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out"
    Synonym(s): round, flesh out, fill out
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