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fleshed out

fleshed out is the simple past and past participle of flesh out.

Meaning of flesh out

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

Questions about fleshed out

What is fleshed out the simple past and past participle of?
Fleshed out is the simple past and past participle of flesh out.

Words near fleshed out in the dictionary

  1. fleshbrushes
  2. fleshcolored
  3. fleshcoloured
  4. fleshed
  5. fleshed one's maiden sword
  6. fleshed out
  7. fleshed-out
  8. fleshen
  9. fleshened
  10. fleshening
  11. fleshens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fleshed out (page history and authors); flesh out (page history and authors). 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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