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Evolve

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo 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.; How long ago did birds evolve beaks?; A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?; to evolve odours"
2.VerbTo move (something) in regular procession through a system.
3.VerbTo change or transform (something).
"Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic."
4.VerbTo cause (something) to come into being or develop.
5.VerbOf a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
"How long ago did birds evolve beaks?; A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?"
6.VerbOf a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
"How long ago did birds evolve beaks?"
7.VerbTo cause (a population, a species, etc.) 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.VerbTo give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
"to evolve odours"
9.VerbTo wind or unwind (something).
10.VerbTo 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.; How long ago did beaks evolve?"
11.VerbTo move in regular procession through a system.
12.VerbTo change, to transform.
"What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth."
13.VerbOf a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
"How long ago did beaks evolve?"
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