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flesh out

flesh out verb: to complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton.

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.
    • The model shows the basics, but we still need to flesh out the details.
    Synonyms:
    round out

flesh out meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Vietnamese

flesh out in Bengali

সম্পূর্ণ করা, একটি মৌলিক খসড়া

flesh out in Malayalam

gain weight, put on weight, get heavier
വണ്ണംവയ്ക്കുക, തടിവയ്ക്കുക, ചതവയ്ക്കുക, പിണുപിണുക്കുക, തടിക്കുക, പാരിക്കുക

flesh out in Vietnamese

complete
hoàn thiện

Synonyms of flesh out

Forms of flesh out

third-person singular presentfleshes out
present participlefleshing out
past participlefleshed out
pastfleshed out

Questions about flesh out

What does flesh out mean?
Flesh out means to complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton.
What is flesh out in Bengali?
Flesh out in Bengali is সম্পূর্ণ করা, একটি মৌলিক খসড়া. See Flesh out meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is flesh out?
Flesh out is a verb.
What is the past tense of flesh out?
The past tense of flesh out is fleshed out.

Words near flesh out in the dictionary

  1. flesh glue
  2. flesh loaf
  3. flesh loaves
  4. flesh on the bones
  5. flesh one's maiden sword
  6. flesh out
  7. flesh tunnel
  8. flesh tunnels
  9. flesh wound
  10. flesh wounds
  11. flesh-bag

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flesh out (page history and authors); flesh out (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flesh out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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