Evolve

Definitions: Evolve

Evolve

Verb

1. Work out; as of a theory or an idea; "We have developed a new theory of evolution".

2. Undergo an evolution; "Modern man evolved a long time ago".

3. Come up with; "We evolved an interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client".

4. Acquire or build up traits or characteristics: "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "evolve" was first used: 1641. (references)

Synonyms: Evolve

Continuance in action

Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Evolution

Verb: evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel; untangle, disentangle; develop.

Extraction

Remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate; (eject); eviscerate.

Production

Flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.

Crosswords: Evolve

And people can evolve together, don't you think? (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Evolve Software, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Evoluciona O Muere / Evolve or Die (reference)

• Evolve Yourself: Conscious Personal Evolution (reference)

• Socrates' Justice from Ancient Greece: How We Evolve to Nonviolence, Brotherhood and Lasting Peace (reference)

• The Common Sense Guide for Spirituality: How to Begin, Stay Focused, and Evolve Spiritually (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Evolve (reference)

• If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Evolve AYRD5000 16 Device Universal Guide Remote (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The symptoms associated with cellulitis can evolve and worsen due to systemic bacterial migration via the bloodstream, and include fever, malaise, and chills.Credit: CDC.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

These research tools will evolve as new knowledge is gained. (references)

Other research shows that the information and problem-solving needs of caregivers evolve over time as the disease progresses and caregiving issues shift. (references)

The condition of these patients may rapidly evolve into dengue shock syndrome (DSS), which, if not immediately corrected, can lead to profound shock and death. (references)

Business

The demand for imported wood fiber, pulp, and chips will also evolve in the next 4-6 years. (references)

Internet distribution will evolve, but there are legal obstacles and psychological barriers to be faced. (references)

A secondary stock market gradually began to evolve in 1986, initially via the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

The education system has largely failed to evolve in line with the changing socio-economic environment. (references)

Saudi Arabia

As more technologically advanced and newly developed features are included in automobiles, market demand for car spare parts will also evolve. (references)

Sri Lanka

However, with the general decline in concessionary funding programs, as well as increased trade in other areas, the U.S. export mix continues to evolve. (references)

Political Economy

THE BAHAMAS

This move, which comes on the heels of a government decision to begin enforcement of its new Copyright Law, will help lower the cost of legitimate videos and encourage local video retailers to evolve away from pirated products. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

Since video retailers complained that it is too expensive to import original videotapes, the government reduced the import duty for imported video and audio tapes and discs to encourage them to evolve away from pirated products. (references)

Trade

Ireland

As the standards and certification requirements evolve, it is expected that qualified U.S. testing laboratories will be able to fully certify that products conform to EU requirements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "evolve": re-evolve.

Albanian

evoluoj, zhvilloj (develop, drive, elaborate, expand, grow, hold, increase, navigate, prosecute, wage), shtjelloj (develop, discuss, explain, explicate, labor, labour, treat), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, elaborate, mill, process, recondition, refine, rehash, treat, work out), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), çliroj (affranchise, cast off, deliver, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, disenthrall, emancipate, extricate, heal, liberate, lighten, ransom, release, relieve, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, unbend, unfetter, unpeg). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تطور تدريجيا, ‏طور (age, develop, improve, incubate, phase, promote, stage), ‏إستنبط (contrive, devise, educe, elicit, formulate, frame, work out), ‏إستخرج (educe, elicit, excavate, extract, lever, mine, quarry, read out, shake), ‏أنشأ (construct, cradle, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), ‏أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, erupt, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разгъвам (scan, shake out, unfold, unfurl, unroll), развивам (cultivate, develop, do, educate, make, pay out, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unreel, unroll, unswathe, unwind, unwrap, wind off, work up), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), произхождам (accrue, come from, derive, descend, emanate, issue, spring, stem, take off), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Chinese 

�"变 (Evolution, Evolutionary, Evolved, Evolving). (various references)

Czech

vyvinout se, vyvíjet se (develop, shape), vypracovat (develop, devise, formulate, frame, hammer out, hammer smth. into shape, think out, work, work out, work up, write out), rozvinout (array, deploy, develop, fill out, set sail, spread, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, unroll), rozvíjet se (form). (various references)

Danish

udvikle (develop, escalate). (various references)

Dutch

zich ontwikkelen (develop), evolueren (develop). (various references)

Esperanto

evolui (develop). (various references)

Faeroese

mennast (develop), búnast (develop). (various references)

Farsi 

نموکردن , گشادن (Open, Solve), استنتاج کردن (Conclude, Derive, Induce, Infer, Subsume), دراوردن (Erupt, Gouge, Render, Wisp), بیرون دادن (Emission, Emit, Exhale, Ooze, Vent), بازکردن (Disclose, Disengage, Disentangle, Solve, Splay, Unbend, Unbrace, Undo, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhinge, Unhitch, Unlock, Unpack, Untie, Untwist, Unwreathe). (various references)

Finnish

kehittyä (develop). (various references)

French

évoluer. (various references)

German

sich entwickeln (be generated, be produced, bud, develop, grow, pan out, progress, shape, thrive, to emerge, turn out, unfold, unwind). (various references)

Greek 

εκτυλίσσομαι, αναπτύσσω (build up, deploy, develop, explicate, expound, to explode, unfold, unroll, work up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שתלשל (hang, let oneself down, trace). (various references)

Hungarian

kialakít (to configure, to form, to get into shape, to hew, to mould, to shape, to shape up, to work up), fejlõdik (flourish, go ahead). (various references)

Indonesian

memperkembangkan, berevolusi. (various references)

Italian

svilupparsi (burgeon, develop, expand, grow, set in), sviluppare (cause, develop, develpo, emit, expand, generate, strengthen, to develop, to device, unwind, work out). (various references)

Korean 

진�"하십시�" (Extinguish). (various references)

Manx

gientyn (beget, begetting, breeding, conceive, conceiving, conception, engender, father, form, generate, generation, procreate, produce, production, progeniture), cur ry-cheilley (assemblage, assemble, associate, clump, combine, compile, connect, connotation, consolidate, consolidation, construct, incorporate, keep together, reconcile, relate, sum, teamwork), cheet gy kione (development, draw on, end, finishing), aase (apophysis, culture, develop, forwardness, grow, growth, tumour, wax), aafilley (evolution). (various references)

Pig Latin

evolveay

Portuguese

evolver, evolucionar (operate). (various references)

Romanian

evolua (develop, grow, manoeuvre), dezvolta (advance, amplify, cultivate, develop, enhance, expand, form, grow, Mold, mould, promote, propagate, work up). (various references)

Russian 

развиваться (be in progress, develop, evolved, maturate, progresses, thrive, thriven, throve). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

evoluirati, razviti (build up, deploy, develop, mature, pioneer, uncase, unfurl). (various references)

Spanish

evolucionar (develop), tomar de (hough). (various references)

Swedish

utveckla (develop, elaborate, expand, explicate, expound, form, Foster, incubate, procure, unfold). (various references)

Thai

ค่อยๆ พั�'นา. (various references)

Turkish

evrim geçirmek, yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), geliştirmek (advance, ameliorate, better, boom, build up, cultivate, develop, enlarge, improve, launch out, open up, reclaim, soup up, work up), gelişmek (advance, ameliorate, blossom, blossom out, boom, branch out, develop, expand, flourish, flower, go ahead, grow, grow up, improve, make headway, progress, refine, shape, shape up, thrive, unfold), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukranian 

розвиватися (advance, maturate, progress, unwind), розвивати (amplify, cultivate, elaborate, explicate, nurse), виявляти (bespeak, demonstrate, detect, disclose, discover, display, educe, elicit, evince, exert, find, show, uncover, vent), виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, excrete, exempt, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, tab, throw off), еволюціонувати. (various references)

Welsh

datblygu (develop). (various references)

evolvere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "evolve": evolved, evolvement, evolvements, evolver, evolvers, evolves. (additional references)

Words ending with "evolve": coevolve, devolve, revolve. (additional references)

Words containing "evolve": coevolved, coevolves, devolved, devolves, revolved, revolver, revolvers, revolves, unevolved. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Evolve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: envolve, evale, Evalie, evol, evole, evolv, ivolve, volve. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: levo, love, vole.

-3 letters: eel, eve, lee, lev, ole, vee, voe.

-4 letters: el, lo, oe.

+1 letter: devolve, evolved, evolver, evolves, revolve.

+2 letters: coevolve, devolved, devolves, evolvers, lovevine, overlive, overlove, revolved, revolver, revolves.

+3 letters: coevolved, coevolves, evolvable, lovevines, overlived, overlives, overloved, overloves, overvalue, revolvers, unevolved.

+4 letters: evolvement, overvalued, overvalues, revolvable.

+5 letters: evocatively, evolvements, involvement, overdevelop, overviolent, overvoltage.

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