"flesh out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-flesh out.ogg Forms: fleshes out [present, singular, third-person], fleshing out [participle, present], fleshed out [participle, past], fleshed out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} flesh out (third-person singular simple present fleshes out, present participle fleshing out, simple past and past participle fleshed out)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Synonyms: round out#English:_flesh out with more details Related terms: fill in, fill out, flush out, put meat on the bones Translations (complete): 充实 (chōngshí) (Chinese), täydentää (Finnish), détailler (French), herausarbeiten (German), ausschmücken (German), сайжруулах (sajžruulax) (Mongolian), баяжуулах (bajažuulax) (Mongolian), desenvolver (Portuguese), concretiza (Romanian), расширя́ть (rasširjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), облека́ть пло́тью (oblekátʹ plótʹju) [imperfective] (Russian), конкретизи́ровать (konkretizírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), fylla ut (Swedish), hoàn thiện (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton."
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          "code": "zh",
          "lang": "Chinese",
          "roman": "chōngshí",
          "sense": "complete",
          "word": "充实"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "complete",
          "word": "täydentää"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "complete",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "complete",
          "word": "herausarbeiten"
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          "sense": "complete",
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          "sense": "complete",
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "complete",
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      "sense": "complete",
      "word": "充实"
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      "sense": "complete",
      "word": "täydentää"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "complete",
      "word": "détailler"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "complete",
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    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "complete",
      "word": "ausschmücken"
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      "word": "сайжруулах"
    },
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      "word": "баяжуулах"
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      "sense": "complete",
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "complete",
      "word": "concretiza"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "rasširjátʹ",
      "sense": "complete",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "complete",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "облека́ть пло́тью"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "konkretizírovatʹ",
      "sense": "complete",
      "tags": [
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        "perfective"
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      "word": "конкретизи́ровать"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "complete",
      "word": "fylla ut"
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "complete",
      "word": "hoàn thiện"
    }
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