to flesh

Examples

• All

• In 1986, a group of economists met in California to flesh out the idea.

  Academic text (1998)

• In summary, it appears that scholars have been fleshing out an increasingly communal understanding of the one-person, one-vote right.

  Academic text (2017)

• I would review my notes each evening after class and try to flesh in more detail.

  Academic text (1991)

• Could you just elaborate on that and kind of flesh out how that came about?

• I got some great ideas percolating, I just need time to flesh them out.

  Marmaduke (2010)

• The following case analysis fleshes out a core contribution of this article.

  Academic text (2017)

• Therefore, future research needs to flesh out the varied conflict potentials of different types of resources.

  Academic text (2002)

• Initially, national experts formed workgroups that fleshed out the national standards.

  Academic text (2011)

• Continued efforts to flesh out a format that has strong technical features and instructional utility are warranted.

  Academic text (2013)

• Could you help me flesh out this proposal by adding some more details?

Synonyms

F

to flesh out

vsto flesh

15 4.0

To add more details to an idea, plan, or argument

focuses on making something fuller rather than just clarifying it

F

to fill out

vsto flesh

14 2.8

To become or make something fuller by adding more

is mainly about adding detail and substance rather than physical fullness

Antonyms

S

to simplify

99 2.5

Make something easier to understand or use

A

to abridge

6.7

Make a book, play, or speech shorter by removing parts while keeping the main idea

Idioms

I

in the flesh

34 4.2

Seeing someone face to face rather than in a photo or on TV

P

pound of flesh

• Informal

8 9.9

A demand for unfair payment or punishment

B

to become one flesh

• Literature

2 8.4

To join fully as a married couple, sharing their bodies and lives

T

the way of all flesh

• Literature

1 9.2

The death that comes to everyone

G

to go the way of all flesh

• Archaic

1 9.7

To stop living as a natural part of life

T

thorn in the flesh

• Informal

1 7.0

Something that keeps causing you trouble or worry

F

to flesh a sword

• Archaic

9.9

To use a sword in battle for the first time

P

to pay one's pound of flesh

• Literature

9.9

Suffer a heavy cost to meet an unfair demand

Phrasal Verbs

F

to flesh out

15 4.0

To add more details to an idea, plan, or argument

F

to flesh out

1 6.2

To become rounder and fuller, usually by gaining weight

Compounds

F

flesh wound

13 3.7

A wound that only affects the skin and soft parts of the body, not organs or bones

F

flesh-eating

• NSFW

5 7.5

An infection that quickly destroys body tissue

O

one flesh

• Literature

3 8.6

Two people joined in marriage who share life and act as one

F

flesh-colored

3 4.2

A pale pink or light brown color like human skin

F

flesh-eating

1 6.1

An animal that eats the meat of other animals

F

flesh fly

• Specialized

9.5

A fly whose young eat the flesh of dead or living animals

P

proud flesh

• Specialized

9.9

Extra soft raised tissue that grows around a cut and keeps the cut from closing

How Detailed

to elaborate

79 4.2

to flesh

27 6.1

outline

59 2.7

to mention

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology