evolveverb [ I or T ]
uk/ɪˈvɒlv/us/ɪˈvɑːlv/C1 to develop gradually, or to cause something or someone to develop gradually:
Did humans evolve from apes?
The company has evolved over the years into a multi-million dollar organization.
Bacteria are evolving resistance to antibiotics.
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- The exhibition will illustrate how life evolved from water.
- Each manager has left his or her own stamp on the way the company has evolved.
- The universe evolved from a densely packed primal inferno.
- Most languages are constantly evolving and changing, which is what keeps them alive.
- These animals have evolved all the necessary qualities to help them catch their prey.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- headway
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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