flesh out

How to sign: 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";

Similiar / Same: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, expound, exposit, dilate, enlarge, expand

Categories: clarify, clear up, elucidate

Within this category: detail, exemplify, set forth, specify

flesh out

How to sign: make fat or plump
"We will plump out that poor starving child";

Similiar / Same: fatten, fat, fatten out, fatten up, plump out, plump, fill out

Categories: alter, change, modify