: having flesh especially of a specified kind
—often used in combination
pink-fleshed
thick-fleshed
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There are no needless digressions, and their architecture is as robust and tightly engineered as their characters are fully fleshed.
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Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Beneath its loving re-creation of ’90s New York, there’s little in the way of larger ideas and, more fatally, actual feeling, its John and Carolyn functioning less as fleshed-out people than dolls for their creators to smash together.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2026
The site already contains a number of resources for teachers, but An American History of Rock and Soul will be the first fully fleshed out course.
—Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
Some of these efforts will take years to become fully fleshed out.
—Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
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Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
Beneath its loving re-creation of ’90s New York, there’s little in the way of larger ideas and, more fatally, actual feeling, its John and Carolyn functioning less as fleshed-out people than dolls for their creators to smash together.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2026
The site already contains a number of resources for teachers, but An American History of Rock and Soul will be the first fully fleshed out course.
—Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
Some of these efforts will take years to become fully fleshed out.
—Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
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“Fleshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fleshed. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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