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Verb flesh out has 3 senses
- fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up - make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate - add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
--2 is one way to clarify, clear up, elucidate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- round, flesh out, fill out - become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out"
--3 is one way to gain, put on
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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