to add more details about something in order to make it easier to understand or imagine
After lunch we started to flesh out our campaign strategy, in his office.
Her stories flesh out the world in which these historical characters lived.
Skeletal structures loomed around him, the building stock destined to flesh out their timber frames heaped up in piles.
Time to flesh out the few terse facts he'd told me about his home.
fleshes out
fleshing out
fleshed out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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