Evolve

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To develop or achieve gradually.
  • intransitive verb. To work (something) out; devise.
  • intransitive verb. To develop (a characteristic) by evolutionary processes.
  • intransitive verb. To give off; emit.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo gradual change; develop.
  • intransitive verb. To arise or transform through evolutionary processes.
  • 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).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.
  • transitive verb. To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
  • transitive verb. To throw out; to emit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To move in regular procession through a system.
  • verb. To develop.
  • verb. Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. work out
  • verb. gain through experience
  • verb. undergo development or evolution
  • Word Usage
    "When I use the term evolve, I don't mean going from a fish to a human; I mean internal progress of the soul, a moving forward rather than backward, learning and applying it."
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