rough out

phrasal verb

roughed out; roughing out; roughs out

: to make (something, such as a drawing or a list) quickly and without including all the details

We'll rough out a general plan.

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In the summer of 1942, Oppenheimer organized a series of secret seminars at Berkeley, where the United States’ top physicists roughed out the outlines of a possible bomb. —Andy Kifer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023