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fleshing out

fleshing out is the present participle and gerund 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 fleshing out

What is fleshing out the present participle and gerund of?
Fleshing out is the present participle and gerund of flesh out.

Words near fleshing out in the dictionary

  1. fleshily
  2. fleshiness
  3. fleshinesses
  4. fleshing
  5. fleshing one's maiden sword
  6. fleshing out
  7. fleshings
  8. fleshless
  9. fleshlessness
  10. fleshlier
  11. fleshliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fleshing 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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