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evolve
Overview of verb evolve
The verb evolve has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (4) evolve, germinate, develop -- (work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution")
2. (3) evolve -- (undergo development or evolution; "Modern man evolved a long time ago")
3. (1) develop, acquire, evolve -- (gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting")
Antonyms of verb evolve
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb evolve
3 senses of evolve
Sense 1
evolve, germinate, develop
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> make, create
Sense 2
evolve
=> develop
=> grow
=> increase
=> change magnitude
=> change
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb evolve
1 of 3 senses of evolve
Sense 2
evolve
=> speciate, differentiate, specialize, specialise
=> derive
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb evolve
3 senses of evolve
Sense 1
evolve, germinate, develop
=> create by mental act, create mentally
Sense 2
evolve
=> develop
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
'Cause To' of verb evolve
Derived Forms of verb evolve
2 of 3 senses of evolve
Sense 2
evolve
RELATED TO>(noun) evolution#1
=> development, evolution
RELATED TO>(noun) evolution#2
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
RELATED TO>(noun) evolution#2
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
Domain of verb evolve
Domain Terms of verb evolve
Familiarity of verb evolve
evolve used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb evolve
3 senses of evolve
Sense 1
evolve, germinate, develop
EX: Did he evolve his major works over a short period of time?
Sense 2
evolve
*> Something ----s
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb evolve
3 senses of evolve
Sense 1
evolve, germinate, develop
> create by mental act, create mentally
=> draw, make
=> re-create
=> give birth
=> schematize
=> invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> plan, project, contrive, design
=> design, plan
=> write
=> evolve, germinate, develop
=> program, programme
=> construct
=> construct
Sense 2
evolve
> develop
=> differentiate
=> dedifferentiate
=> grow
=> senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate
=> age
=> progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up
=> mature, maturate, grow
=> evolve
=> adolesce
=> build up, work up, build, progress
=> incubate
=> blossom, blossom out, blossom forth, unfold
=> bloom, blossom, flower
=> spike, spike out
=> bud
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb evolve
Sense 1
evolve, germinate, develop
=> create by mental act, create mentally
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Sense 2
evolve
=> develop
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Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
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Grep of verb evolve
devolve
evolve
revolve
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