evolve.
To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
Meaning & usage
To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
To change or transform (something).
Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.
To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
To acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
How long ago did birds evolve beaks?
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?
To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
to evolve odours
To wind or unwind (something).
To move in regular procession through a system.
To change, to transform.
What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth.
Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
How long ago did beaks evolve?
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ē- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volvō (“roll”).
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