Definition of "flush out"

flush out

verb
third-person singular simple present flushes out, present participle flushing out, simple past and past participle flushed out
1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flush,‎ out.
2. (idiomatic) To drive out or expose something or someone, as a game bird or other game animal from cover.
3. (proscribed) To flesh out.
  Quotations
  It should serve to flush out the existing ideas, generate new ones, insure that the approach chosen is responsive to the goals, and perhaps most importantly, get the whole team to sign up and take ownership of the application approach.
  1990, Robert E. Bergman, Thomas V. Moore, Managing Interactive Video/Multimedia Projects, Educational Technology,, page 45
  Brainstorming with friends and colleagues can help you flush out the details of the idea.
  2009, Laura Bell, 101 Things You Didn’t Learn in Harvard Business School, TotalRecall Publications,, page 68
  As you flush out a great design, start prototyping it.
  2014, George Berkowski, How to Build a Billion Dollar App, Little