Devolve

Conversations about race tend to devolve into a shouting match.

Yanni's apologies often devolve into physical altercations.

Languages don't devolve into dialects from a pure state; rather, standards are created out of dialects.

Alive as a cell can be, an easy death that it meets. Healthy a human can be, and with time death heeds. Society blooming with progress, will devolve with regression. A planet abundant in uniqueness, that can end with bleakness. Complex systems that existed, left traceless as black holes prevail. An interconnected sophisticated universe will end up confiscated and left darkened. I wonder, I can exist once and disappear, but will I ever exist again?

an accident […] rendered him permanently lame, and therefore unfitted him, in the opinion of his parents, to inherit his father's many titles, which, it was then arranged, should devolve upon his younger brother.

Near-synonyms: pass down, pass on, hand down

Despite being a unitary state, the Government of the United Kingdom devolved many matters to the Governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.

An artful man became popular, the people had power in their hands, and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite […].

Shapps retains responsibility for rail safety in Scotland, with only the operation of track and train devolved to Transport Scotland.