Evolve

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To develop or achieve gradually: evolve a style of one's own.
  • v. To work (something) out; devise: "the schemes he evolved to line his purseā€ ( S.J. Perelman).
  • v. Biology To develop (a characteristic) by evolutionary processes.
  • v. To give off; emit.
  • verb-intransitive. To undergo gradual change; develop: an amateur acting group that evolved into a theatrical company.
  • verb-intransitive. Biology To develop or arise through evolutionary processes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To move in regular procession through a system.
  • v. To develop.
  • v. Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
  • v. To throw out; to emit.
  • verb-intransitive. To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To unfold; open and expand.
  • To unfold or develop by a process of natural, consecutive, or logical growth from, or as if from, a germ, latent state, or plan.
  • To unfold by elaboration; work out; bring forth or make manifest by action of any kind: as, to evolve a drama from an anecdote; to evolve the truth from a mass of confused evidence; to evolve bad odors by stirring a muck-heap.
  • To open or disclose itself; become developed.
  • In chem., geol., etc., to give off or make manifest by separation from a mixture or a compound: most commonly used of a gas or vapor: as hydrochloric-acid gas evolved from a mixture of common salt and sulphuric acid.
  • In mathematics, to extract (roots).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. work out
  • v. gain through experience
  • v. undergo development or evolution
  • Verb Form
    evolved    evolves    evolving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    emit    develop   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    absolve    devolve    dissolve    involve    resolve    revolve    solve   
    Same Context
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