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Devolve

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To pass on or delegate to another: The senator devolved the duties of office upon a group of aides.

v. Archaic To cause to roll onward or downward.

verb-intransitive. To be passed on or transferred to another: The burden of proof devolved upon the defendant. The estate devolved to an unlikely heir.

verb-intransitive. To degenerate or deteriorate gradually: After several hours the discussion had devolved into a shouting match.

verb-intransitive. Archaic To roll onward or downward.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to delegate something to someone else

v. to be inherited by someone; to come into the hands of

v. to slowly degrade

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

v. To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.

verb-intransitive. To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To roll downward or onward.

To transfer, as from one person to another; turn over; transmit.

To roll down; come or arrive by rolling down or onward.

To be transferred or transmitted; pass from one to another; fall by succession or transference.

To degenerate.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. grow worse

v. be inherited by

v. pass on or delegate to another

Word Usage

"He didn't use the word devolve'' and he's coming off a heroic performance in Detroit, but that's the deal."

Verb Form

devolved devolves devolving

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

assign designate depute delegate

Form

devolved devolving

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pass descend transfer

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

absolve dissolve evolve involve resolve revolve solve

Same Context

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