fleshing out
Developing more fully
Fleshing out is adding substance or detail to something skeletal or underdeveloped.
You flesh out a proposal by adding specifics, flesh out a character by giving them depth and backstory: The outline is solid, but we need to flesh it out before the presentation.
The image is of putting flesh on bare bones.
- elaboratingDeveloping in greater detail
- detailingDescribing thoroughly, point-by-point
- enrichingAdding worth or nutrients
- enhancingIncreasing quality or value
- expansionIncrease in scope
rounding out · specifying · clarifying · filling in the blanks · articulating · extension · characterization · substantiating · development · composing · definition · animating · description · embellishing · scaffolding · refining · illustrating · particularizing
- elaborationclarification, expansion, detail, explanation, amplification
- explainingexplaining, clarifying, elaborating, elucidating, expounding
- representingrepresenting, depicting, portraying, symbolizing, illustrating
fleshing outsummarizing
Condensing to main points
condensing · trimming · abbreviating · abridging · cutting down
fleshing outskeletonizing
Reducing to structural remains
gutting · hollowing out · stripping down · outlining · sketching
fleshing outabandoning
Leaving permanently behind
shelving · dropping · neglecting · scrapping · tabling
flesh, fleshing, fleshed, fleshly, fleshy, fleshiness, outing, outward, outwardly