flesh out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make fat or plump
We will plump out that poor starving child
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- fatness derivation
- adipose tissue derivation
- feed entails
Sense 2 verb
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
Types & categories
- clear up hypernym
- detail hyponym
- exposit hyponym
- instance hyponym
- particularize hyponym
Related & opposite
- abridge antonym
- expanding upon derivation
- elaboration derivation
- lucubration derivation
- exposition derivation
- exposition derivation
- dilation derivation
- expatiation derivation
- elaboration derivation
- exponent derivation
- expository derivation
Sense 3 verb
become round, plump, or shapely
The young woman is fleshing out
Types & categories
- gain hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fatness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | adipose tissue |
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | feed |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | abridge |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | expanding upon |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | elaboration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lucubration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exposition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | expatiation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | elaboration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exponent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | expository |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | clear up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | detail |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | exposit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | instance |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | particularize |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | gain |