Evolve Definition

ĭ-vŏlv
evolved, evolves, evolving
verb
evolved, evolves, evolving
To develop gradually.
To evolve a comprehensive plan.
Webster's New World
To work (something) out; devise.
American Heritage
To set free or give off (gas, heat, etc.)
Webster's New World
To develop gradually by a process of growth and change.
Webster's New World
To produce by evolution.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Evolve

  • From Latin ēvolvere, present active infinitive of ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + volvō (“roll”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin ēvolvere to unroll ē-, ex- ex- volvere to roll wel-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Evolve Sentence Examples

  • On boiling with caustic potash they evolve hydrogen, yielding a phosphate.

  • The form of the Pensees forbids the attempt to evolve from their detached utterances a completely coherent system.

  • Sodium dioxide is chiefly employed as an oxidizing agent, being used in mineral analysis and in various organic preparations; it readily burns paper, wood, &c., but does not evolve oxygen unless heated to a high temperature.

  • This irreversibility is due to the work required to evolve bubbles of gas at the surface of bright platinum plates.

  • Gomperz in his Herkulanische Studien, and in contributions to the Vienna Academy (Monatsberichte), has tried to evolve from the fragments more approximation to modern empiricism than they seem to contain.

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Words Starting With

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