flesh out
phrasal 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.
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That gives the creative team ample freedom to flesh out their vision of Derry, all while paying tribute to the breadth of King's vast oeuvre, which, by virtue of the author's penchant for cross-pollination, lends itself to Easter eggs.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
The once-homeless orphan's backstory will be fleshed out in Season 2.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
But, around the edges of the story, Megan Gallagher (who created the show and wrote five of its eight episodes) fleshes out other nuances.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
Onstage, all this narrative retconning has a breezy behind-the-scenes cleverness, as if the story were being slyly fleshed out in the margins.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
The once-homeless orphan's backstory will be fleshed out in Season 2.
—Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
But, around the edges of the story, Megan Gallagher (who created the show and wrote five of its eight episodes) fleshes out other nuances.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
Onstage, all this narrative retconning has a breezy behind-the-scenes cleverness, as if the story were being slyly fleshed out in the margins.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for flesh out
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“Flesh out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flesh%20out. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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