Devolve

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  • intransitive verb. To pass on or delegate to another.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to roll onward or downward.
  • intransitive verb. To be passed on or transferred to another.
  • intransitive verb. To degenerate or deteriorate gradually.
  • intransitive verb. To roll onward or downward.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into.
  • transitive verb. To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
  • transitive verb. To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to delegate something to someone else
  • verb. to be inherited by someone; to come into the hands of
  • verb. to slowly degrade
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. grow worse
  • verb. be inherited by
  • verb. pass on or delegate to another