evolveth

Verb

evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)

1. (transitive) To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
   • The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soula. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...

   Synonyms:

   develop, progress

2. (transitive) To change or transform (something).
   • Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.

   Synonyms:

   develop, convert, draw, metamorphize, metamorphose, reconvert, shift, transfigurate, transfigure, transform

3. (transitive) To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
   • You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

   Synonyms:

   contrive, generate, bring forth, cause, create, ferment, forge, develop, engender, gin up

4. (transitive, usually, a species) To acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
   • How long ago did birds evolve beaks?
5. (intransitive, transitive, usually, a species) 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?
6. (transitive) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
   • to evolve odours

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