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Definition of Flesh out
1. Verb. Make fat or plump. "We will plump out that poor starving child"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Entails: Feed, Give
Derivative terms: Fat, Fat
2. Verb. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing. "They flesh out that there was a traffic accident "; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
Generic synonyms: Clarify, Clear Up, Elucidate
Specialized synonyms: Detail, Exposit, Expound, Set Forth, Exemplify, Illustrate, Instance, Particularise, Particularize, Specialise, Specialize, Specify
Derivative terms: Dilation, Elaboration, Elaboration, Enlargement, Expansion, Expansion, Expatiation, Exposition, Exponent, Expository, Expounding, Lucubration
Antonyms: Contract
3. Verb. Become round, plump, or shapely. "The young woman is fleshing out"
Definition of Flesh out
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure or skeleton ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flesh Out
Literary usage of Flesh out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1861)
"We are all seminally in Jesus Christ, and we are os ex ossibus ejus, bone out of
his bone, and flesh out of his flesh. If you read Gen. ii. ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Now, when God handled the clay for the express purpose of the growth of flesh
out of it afterwards, it was for the flesh that He took all the trouble. ..."
3. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"He says then, ' To say that true believers, or any other men do perpetrate the
works of the flesh, out of infirmity, involves a contradiction : for to do ..."
4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Novatianus, Allan Menzies (1870)
"Now, when God handled the clay for the express purpose of the growth of flesh
out of it afterwards, it was for the flesh that He took all the trouble. ..."
5. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies (1870)
"Now, when God handled the clay for the express purpose of the growth of flesh
out of it afterwards, it was for the flesh that He took all the trouble. ..."
6. Expositions on the Book of Psalms by Augustine (1849)
"3, received flesh, out of the person of the same flesh, this He ' saith: because
then our old man was nailed together with Rom. 6, Him to the Cross. 3. ..."
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