'Evolve' definitions:
Definition of 'evolve'
(from WordNet)
verb
verb
Undergo development or evolution; "Modern man evolved a long time ago"
verb
Definition of 'Evolve'
From: GCIDE
- Evolve \E*volve"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evolved; p. pr. & vb. n. Evolving.] [L. evolvere, evolutum; e out + volvere to roll. See Voluble.]
- 1. To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe. [1913 Webster]
- The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul. --Sir. M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Evolve'
From: GCIDE
- Evolve \E*volve"\, v. i. To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'evolve'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- alter into,
- amplify,
- assemble,
- avulse,
- be converted into,
- bear fruit,
- beautify,
- become,
- beget,
- bloom,
- blossom,
- breed,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- build,
- call into being,
- cast,
- change into,
- coin,
- come round to,
- compose,
- compound,
- conceive,
- concoct,
- construct,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- create,
- cultivate,
- cut out,
- deracinate,
- descant,
- design,
- detail,
- develop,
- devise,
- dig out,
- dig up,
- dilate,
- discover,
- disentangle,
- draw,
- draw out,
- dream up,
- dredge,
- dredge up,
- educe,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- engender,
- enlarge,
- enlarge upon,
- eradicate,
- erect,
- evolute,
- evolve into,
- evulse,
- excavate,
- excise,
- excogitate,
- expand,
- expatiate,
- explicate,
- exsect,
- extract,
- extricate,
- extrude,
- fabricate,
- fall into,
- fashion,
- finish,
- flower,
- form,
- formulate,
- frame,
- fudge together,
- generate,
- get at,
- get out,
- get up,
- give being to,
- give rise to,
- gouge out,
- grow,
- grub up,
- hatch,
- improvise,
- indite,
- invent,
- lapse into,
- make,
- make do with,
- make up,
- manufacture,
- maturate,
- mature,
- mellow,
- melt into,
- mine,
- mint,
- mold,
- obtain,
- open into,
- open up,
- originate,
- particularize,
- pass into,
- patch together,
- perfect,
- pick out,
- piece together,
- plan,
- pluck out,
- pluck up,
- polish,
- prefabricate,
- prepare,
- procreate,
- produce,
- progress,
- pull,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- put together,
- put up,
- quarry,
- raise,
- rake out,
- rear,
- refine,
- rehearse in extenso,
- relate at large,
- remove,
- rip out,
- ripen,
- ripen into,
- root out,
- root up,
- run into,
- run up,
- season,
- set up,
- settle into,
- shape,
- shift into,
- spawn,
- strike out,
- take out,
- tear out,
- think out,
- think up,
- turn into,
- turn to,
- unearth,
- unfold,
- unravel,
- uproot,
- wax,
- weed out,
- whomp up,
- withdraw,
- work out,
- wrest out,
- write