flesh out

verb

fleshed out; fleshing out; fleshes out

: to provide more information about (something) : to make (something) more complete by adding details

You need to flesh out your plan with more details.

She fleshes out the characters in her novels very well.

Examples of flesh out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So, as a very conscious decision for the Remake series, they’ve been made compulsory parts of the team, and they’ve really been fleshed out more and given the background and the deeper dive into them as characters. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

The team then works with ChatGPT, Kimi or DeepSeek to flesh out the screenplay. — Ling Wei, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

The new trailer fleshes out the basic premise, giving us a Carrie who has been homeschooled all her life and is clearly not equipped to deal with the harsh realities of high school in the 2020s. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

While Warsh didn’t flesh out a reaction function in his Jackson Hole speech, his signal that rate hikes may be coming was a step in the right direction. — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for flesh out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout