flushing out

Verb

flush out (third-person singular simple present flushes out, present participle flushing out, simple past and past participle flushed out)

1. (idiomatic) To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover.
   • The dogs flushed out some doves.

   Synonyms:

   drive, flush, scare up

2. (proscribed) To flesh out.
   • It should serve to flush out the existing ideas, generate new ones, insure that the approach chosen is responsive to the goals, and perhaps most importantly, get the whole team to sign up and take ownership of the application approach.1990, Robert E. Bergman, Thomas V. Moore, Managing Interactive Video/Multimedia Projects, Educational Technology,, →ISBN, page 45
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flush, out.