n. 1 meat; tissue, muscle We ate the flesh and threw away the fat, bones, and skin 2 body, corporeality, flesh and blood, human nature, physicality; mortality The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak 3 flesh and blood. real, physical, corporeal, human, natural He pointed out that he was flesh and blood, not a robot 4 in the flesh. personally, in person, really, physically, bodily, alive, living, in life She stood before me, in the flesh 5 one's (own) flesh and blood. kin, kinsfolk or US and Canadian kinfolk, family, stock, blood, kith and kin, relatives, relations How could she treat her own flesh and blood that way?
v. 6 flesh out. substantiate, fill (in or out), give or lend substance or dimension to, incorporate, embody, colour The idea is good, but it needs fleshing out