Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Corpulent; fat; having flesh.
  • adjective Glutted; satiated; initiated.

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  • adjective Having flesh; corpulent
  • adjective in combination Having a specified form of flesh or body

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Examples

  • He sees this as the most important part of the Clarke task force and wants the idea fleshed out over the next few months.

    Telegraph Column: The Importance of Parliamentary Reform 2007

  • But the revolution in which O'Connell is engaged, although directed against the oppression of centuries, relies with just confidence upon the united moral energies of the people: a moral victory of reason over prejudice, of justice over oppression; the triumph of intellectual energy where the brute appeal to arms had miserably failed; the vindication of man's eternal rights, not by the sword fleshed in human hearts, but by weapons tempered in the armory of Heaven with truth and mercy and love.

    Historical Papers, Part 3, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • But the revolution in which O'Connell is engaged, although directed against the oppression of centuries, relies with just confidence upon the united moral energies of the people: a moral victory of reason over prejudice, of justice over oppression; the triumph of intellectual energy where the brute appeal to arms had miserably failed; the vindication of man's eternal rights, not by the sword fleshed in human hearts, but by weapons tempered in the armory of Heaven with truth and mercy and love.

    Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • But the revolution in which O'Connell is engaged, although directed against the oppression of centuries, relies with just confidence upon the united moral energies of the people: a moral victory of reason over prejudice, of justice over oppression; the triumph of intellectual energy where the brute appeal to arms had miserably failed; the vindication of man's eternal rights, not by the sword fleshed in human hearts, but by weapons tempered in the armory of Heaven with truth and mercy and love.

    The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

  • Both candidates have now kind of fleshed out positions on that, and they're talking about things that are now relating to people's lives here at home.

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2004 2004

  • The castle was basically a logical structure "fleshed" out with the sensory cues that allowed the warlocks to move about it as one would a physical structure.

    True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

  • Of course, after that, all question as to our calling in life was at an end, and the sooner we "fleshed" our pens before the world the better.

    Boycotted And Other Stories Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • "It was one of the demos that Karen had and we kind of fleshed it out in LA ..."

    iTunes Top 10 Albums 2009

  • "In the old days, when whaling-ships went on three and four year voyages they 'fleshed' the blubber at sea and boiled it down or 'tried it out,' as they called it, into oil.

    The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • Macho characters portrayed by Marlon Brando and James Dean were fleshed out with brazen working-class energies in their American T-shirts, until then seldom worn uncovered save by laborers.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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