evolve

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 4.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To move (something) in regular procession through a system.

   Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.

2. verb To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
3. verb To change or transform (something).

   Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.

4. verb To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
5. verb To acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.

   How long ago did birds evolve beaks?

6. verb To acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.

   How long ago did birds evolve beaks?

7. verb To change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.

   A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?

8. verb To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.

   to evolve odours

Similar words

develop work out mutate lead forge mature tailor transform expand developments

Often followed by

into a in from and to as the over

Word family

evolution evolutionary evolutionist evolutionists evolvable evolved evolvement evolvements evolves evolving