flesh-out

(v) make fat or plump
- We will plump out that poor starving child
fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, plump out, plump, fill out,
(v) 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
elaborate, expatiate, expound, lucubrate, dilate, exposit, enlarge, expand,
(v) become round, plump, or shapely
- The young woman is fleshing out
fill out, round,

fat fatten fatten out fatten up plump out plump fill out elaborate expatiate expound lucubrate dilate exposit enlarge expand round

abbreviate abridge foreshorten shorten contract reduce cut