flesh out

Verb

• become round, plump, or shapely
  • The young woman is fleshing out
    

• 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
    

• make fat or plump
  • We will plump out that poor starving child
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  round , fill out , elaborate , lucubrate , expatiate , exposit , enlarge , expand , expound , dilate , fatten , fat , plump , plump out , fatten out , fatten up
• Antonyms: 
  abridge , foreshorten , abbreviate , shorten , cut , contract , reduce