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" I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you're just another pretty face and you don't have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career."
Erin Cummings

Meaning of "flesh out" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF FLESH OUT

flesh out


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLESH OUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flesh out is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flesh out in English.

WHAT DOES FLESH OUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of flesh out in the English dictionary

The definition of flesh out in the dictionary is to give substance to. Other definition of flesh out is to expand or become more substantial.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLESH OUT

PRESENT

Present
I flesh out
you flesh out
he/she/it fleshes out
we flesh out
you flesh out
they flesh out
Present continuous
I am fleshing out
you are fleshing out
he/she/it is fleshing out
we are fleshing out
you are fleshing out
they are fleshing out
Present perfect
I have fleshed out
you have fleshed out
he/she/it has fleshed out
we have fleshed out
you have fleshed out
they have fleshed out
Present perfect continuous
I have been fleshing out
you have been fleshing out
he/she/it has been fleshing out
we have been fleshing out
you have been fleshing out
they have been fleshing out
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I fleshed out
you fleshed out
he/she/it fleshed out
we fleshed out
you fleshed out
they fleshed out
Past continuous
I was fleshing out
you were fleshing out
he/she/it was fleshing out
we were fleshing out
you were fleshing out
they were fleshing out
Past perfect
I had fleshed out
you had fleshed out
he/she/it had fleshed out
we had fleshed out
you had fleshed out
they had fleshed out
Past perfect continuous
I had been fleshing out
you had been fleshing out
he/she/it had been fleshing out
we had been fleshing out
you had been fleshing out
they had been fleshing out
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will flesh out
you will flesh out
he/she/it will flesh out
we will flesh out
you will flesh out
they will flesh out
Future continuous
I will be fleshing out
you will be fleshing out
he/she/it will be fleshing out
we will be fleshing out
you will be fleshing out
they will be fleshing out
Future perfect
I will have fleshed out
you will have fleshed out
he/she/it will have fleshed out
we will have fleshed out
you will have fleshed out
they will have fleshed out
Future perfect continuous
I will have been fleshing out
you will have been fleshing out
he/she/it will have been fleshing out
we will have been fleshing out
you will have been fleshing out
they will have been fleshing out
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would flesh out
you would flesh out
he/she/it would flesh out
we would flesh out
you would flesh out
they would flesh out
Conditional continuous
I would be fleshing out
you would be fleshing out
he/she/it would be fleshing out
we would be fleshing out
you would be fleshing out
they would be fleshing out
Conditional perfect
I would have flesh out
you would have flesh out
he/she/it would have flesh out
we would have flesh out
you would have flesh out
they would have flesh out
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been fleshing out
you would have been fleshing out
he/she/it would have been fleshing out
we would have been fleshing out
you would have been fleshing out
they would have been fleshing out
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you flesh out
we let´s flesh out
you flesh out
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to flesh out
Past participle
fleshed out
Present Participle
fleshing out
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLESH OUT

flesh · flesh and blood · flesh colour · flesh fly · flesh tints · flesh wound · flesh-and-blood · flesh-coloured · flesher · fleshhood · fleshier · fleshiest · fleshily · fleshiness · fleshings · fleshless · fleshlier · fleshliest · fleshliness · fleshling

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLESH OUT

airbrush out · branch out · catch out · check out · crash out · dish out · eat out · find out · fish out · lash out · log out · on the way out · psych out · rough out · sign out · splash out · thrash out · thresh out · wash out · watch out

Synonyms and antonyms of flesh out in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «flesh out» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF FLESH OUT

Find out the translation of flesh out to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of flesh out from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flesh out» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

充实
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

profundizar en
570 millions of speakers
en

English

flesh out
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बाहर मांस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تجسيد
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

конкретизировать
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

carne para fora
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মাংস আউট
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

étoffer
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Daging
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Fleisch aus
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

肉付け
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

구체화
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Daging metu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thịt ra
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சுத்தம் செய்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

बाहेर मांस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ayrıntılarıyla anlatmak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

rimpolpare
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

ukształtowaniu
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

конкретизувати
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

concretiza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σάρκα και οστά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vlees uit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bygga ut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kjøttet ut
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLESH OUT»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flesh out

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5 QUOTES WITH «FLESH OUT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flesh out.
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Uwe Boll
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
2
Erin Cummings
I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you're just another pretty face and you don't have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career.
3
Arthur Darvill
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.
4
Colleen McCullough
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
5
Marnie Stern
I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLESH OUT»

Discover the use of flesh out in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flesh out and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Andersch Bros. Hunters and Trappers Guide: Illustrating the ...
Pur or flesh out Fur or flesh out Fur side out. . Cased Cased Cased Open Cased , Cased Cased Cased Cased or open Cased Cased Open or cased Cased or open Fur or flesh out Fur or flesh out Fur or flesh out Flesh Flesh Fur or Fur or Fur or ...
Andersch Bros. (Minneapolis, Minn.), Louis Andersch, 1906
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
See flutist. flesh out; flush out. To flesh out is to put flesh on bare bones — that is, to move beyond the merest rudiments and to elaborate; to add some nuance and detail. To flush out (probably a hunting metaphor) is to bring something into the ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2000
3
Idioms in the News - 1,000 Phrases, Real Examples
"We came to conclusions that will have to be fleshed out in coming days." —The Wall Street Journal (12/9/2011) Historians like to say that every war story helps flesh out the bigger picture, even the stories of clerks and truck drivers and cooks.
Peter Bengelsdorf
4
On the Resurrection of the Flesh
Now, when God handled the clay for the express purpose of the growth of flesh out of it afterwards, it was for the flesh that He took all the trouble. But I want you, moreover, to know at what time and in what manner the flesh flourished into ...
Tertullian
5
War expenditures: hearings before the Select Committee on ...
All right ; we would be very glad to have it. Col. GIMPERLING (reading) : Flesh- out leather: What Is known as the grain side of the leather; that Is, the surface on which the hair grows consists of a hard, bony cuticle, culled the grain of the leather.
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, 1921
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... Tertullian Concerning the Resurrection of the Flesh
Gen. are 3 themselves the new creation of flesh out of clay, seeing that somewhat earlier both Adam recognised an offshoot of his own substance in what was now the woman's flesh — " this is now Gen. ii. 23 bone of my bone and flesh of my ...
Tertullian, 1922
7
Oxford Thesaurus of English
7verb 1 flesh out the once lean physique hadfleshed out: put on weight, gain weight, get heavier, grow fat/fatter, fatten up, get fat, fill out; thicken, widen, broaden, expand, spread out. wANTONYMS slim. 1 flesh something out the shadow ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
8
War Expenditures: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 5 ...
Gimpekling (reading) : Flesh-out leather: What Is known. as the grain side of the leather: that Is. the surface on which the hair grows consists of a hard, bony cuticle, called the grain of the leather. This grain tends to become dry and hard before ...
United States. Expenditures in the War Department, Select Committee on, 1920
9
War Expenditures: v. 1 Testimony and exhibits of the War ...
If the grain Is put on the Inside of the shoe and the flesh part on the outside, this cracking does not occur. <in<l the life of the shoe with the flesh out is Indefinite. In old times all shoe leather was made with the flesh out, and the old-fashioned ...
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Dept, 1921
10
Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient ...
which beings are created.3503 In a related way, the deceased once claims to have made his own flesh by means of his akh-power,3504 and a new-born god describes his birth as “casting his flesh out of Nun”.3505 As with iwf, Ha is also ...
Rune Nyord, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLESH OUT»

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Dems warm up to GOP tax plan
Obama has tried to flesh out some of the details, calling for a 19 percent minimum rate on global earnings in his February budget. But business ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
2
Same-sex marriage ruling from Supreme Court raises issues for …
... year to "flesh out" such issues. Kansas Senate Judiciary Chairman Jeff King, an Independence Republican, said such a landmark court ruling ... «KSHB, Jul 15»
3
'DBZ' Sequel TV Series: 3 Ways 'Dragon Ball Super' Can Improve In …
... Saiyan in a sparring match with his mom and you'll realize that the latter half of "Dragon Ball Z" didn't bother to flesh out its main characters. «Design & Trend, Jul 15»
4
Can Hillary Clinton lead the Keystone army
“It's imperative that the environmental community force her to flesh out her priorities” on climate change, he said. Still, the anti-Keystone activists ... «Politico, Jul 15»
5
Some Ford lines may be heading to Mexico
... and the newer, more affordable workers would flesh out the ranks. (Average wages have already drifted up to $16 for the new hires anyway.) ... «Hot Air, Jul 15»
6
EA wants fun in "every single position on the ice" in NHL 16
... light on content following the transition to the current-gen platforms, EA Canada are now working to flesh out the experience this time around. «Gamereactor UK, Jul 15»
7
Here's What We learned From the First 20 Minutes of Minority Report
The first 20 minutes of the pilot flesh out the premise and introduces us to the characters. Dash and his siblings Arthur and Agatha were the ... «seattlepi.com, Jul 15»
8
Arpaio's Epic Fail: Judge Refuses to Recuse Self in Melendres
One involved Montgomery, an alleged computer guru that the sheriff's office hired to flesh out a cockamamie conspiracy theory involving the ... «Phoenix New Times, Jul 15»
9
Fashion first (and always)
(Need national retailers to flesh out your to-buy list? Salinas has those, too, at Northridge Shopping Center on the north end of town). You might ... «Monterey County Weekly, Jul 15»
10
The Diary Of A Cord Cutter In 2015 (Part 10: The Rise Of Niche …
But if you're looking to flesh out your lineup with a little more content this year, below are some newer and more interesting services you can try, ... «TechCrunch, Jul 15»
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