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Verb: flesh out
  1. Make fat or plump
    - fatten, fat [archaic], fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
     
  2. Describe and explain in detail
    - elaborate, lucubrate [archaic], expatiate, exposit, enlarge, expand, expound, dilate
     
  3. Become round, plump, or shapely
    "The young woman is fleshing out";
    - round, fill out

Derived forms: fleshed out, fleshes out, fleshing out

Type of: alter, change, clarify, clear up, elucidate, gain, modify, put on