Evolve

//ɪˈvɒlv// verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To move (something) in regular procession through a system. transitive

    "The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul"

  2. 2
    undergo development or evolution wordnet
  3. 3
    To change or transform (something). transitive

    "Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic."

  4. 4
    gain through experience wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause (something) to come into being or develop. transitive

    "You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved."

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  1. 6
    work out wordnet
  2. 7
    Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution. transitive

    "How long ago did birds evolve beaks?"

  3. 8
    To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution. transitive

    "A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?"

  4. 9
    To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction. transitive

    "to evolve odours"

  5. 10
    To wind or unwind (something). obsolete, transitive

    "And come, my Muſe! that lov'ſt the ſylvan ſhade, / Evolve the mazes, and the miſt diſpel; / Tranſlate the ſong; convince my doubting maid / No ſolemn Derviſe can explain ſo vvell— […]"

  6. 11
    To move in regular procession through a system. intransitive

    "[T]he principles which Art involves, Science alone evolves."

  7. 12
    To change, to transform. intransitive

    "What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth."

  8. 13
    Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution. intransitive

    "How long ago did beaks evolve?"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ē- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volvō (“roll”).

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