Conversations about race tend to devolve into a shouting match.
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Devolve
//dɪˈvɑlv//
Synonyms for "devolve" (47 found)
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17 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- пада се на verb (to be inherited by someone)
- предавам verb (to delegate something to someone else)
- прехвърлям verb (to delegate something to someone else)
Czech
3 entries- přejít (na koho) verb (to be inherited by someone)
- přenést verb (to delegate something to someone else)
- převést verb (to delegate something to someone else)
Georgian
1 entries- გადასცემს verb (to delegate something to someone else)
German
1 entries- übergeben verb (to delegate something to someone else)
Polish
2 entries- przekazać verb (to delegate something to someone else)
- przenieść verb (to delegate something to someone else)
Russian
2 entries- передава́ть verb (to delegate something to someone else)
- переходи́ть verb (to be inherited by someone)
Scots
1 entries- devolve verb (to delegate something to someone else)
Spanish
3 entries- delegar verb (to delegate something to someone else)
- desvolucionar verb (to degenerate)
- involucionar verb (to degenerate)
Swedish
1 entries- urarta verb (to degenerate)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Yanni's apologies often devolve into physical altercations.
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Languages don't devolve into dialects from a pure state; rather, standards are created out of dialects.
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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?
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