Flesh out
Flesh out verb - To express more fully and in greater detail.
Stretch
Stretch verb - To add to the interest of by including made-up details.
Usage example: it was stretching the truth to say she'd been in the movies: she was once an extra whose scene was cut in the final version
Flesh out and stretch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flesh out" instead a verb "Stretch".
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Adaptation Expansion: The story is basically just Jonathan Hickman's Avengers story arc with the Fantastic Four and X-Men adapted out, and tons of MCU stuff adapted back into it to stretch it out and add more plotlines and flesh out some of the other timelines.
Source: Video Game / Marvel Future Fight
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Stretch and Flesh out. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/flesh_out/stretch
Flesh out & Stretch. N.p., 2016. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/flesh_out/stretch>.
Stretch or Flesh out. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/flesh_out/stretch.
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