evolve
to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
to give off or emit, as odors or vapors.
to come forth gradually into being; develop; undergo evolution: The whole idea evolved from a casual remark.
to gradually change one's opinions or beliefs: candidates who are still evolving on the issue;an evolved feminist mom.
Biology. to develop by a process of evolution to a different adaptive state or condition: The human species evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.
Origin of evolve
1Other words from evolve
- e·volv·a·ble, adjective
- e·volve·ment, noun
- e·volv·er, noun
- non·e·volv·ing, adjective
- self-e·volved, adjective
- self-e·volv·ing, adjective
- un·e·volved, adjective
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How to use evolve in a sentence
In the self-evolving life of the place there has been a strong trend toward associated life, which has reconditioned everything.
Revisiting the Earth | James Langdon HillOr, rather, the impulse that constitutes his life as man, is the self-evolving activity of reason.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher | Henry JonesWe propose to look into this self-evolving process, as he and his brother evolutionists describe their theory.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith | Robert PattersonThe universe is a self-supporting, self-evolving machine, and God is an isolated, incommunicable abstraction.
The Theistic Conception of the World | B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
British Dictionary definitions for evolve
/ (ɪˈvɒlv) /
to develop or cause to develop gradually
(intr) (of animal or plant species) to undergo evolution
(tr) to yield, emit, or give off (heat, gas, vapour, etc)
Origin of evolve
1Derived forms of evolve
- evolvable, adjective
- evolvement, noun
- evolver, noun
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Scientific definitions for evolve
[ ĭ-vŏlv′ ]
To undergo biological evolution, as in the development of new species or new traits within a species.
To develop a characteristic through the process of evolution.
To undergo change and development, as the structures of the universe.
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