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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb develop has 21 senses

• develop(v = verb.creation) Array - make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation; "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique"
is one way to create
Derived form noun development₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• develop(v = verb.creation) evolve, germinate - work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
is one way to create by mental act, create mentally
Sample sentence:
Did he develop his major works over a short period of time?

• develop(v = verb.change) acquire, evolve - gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting"
is one way to change
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• develop(v = verb.body) acquire, get, grow, produce - come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
is one way to change
Derived form noun development₃
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• develop(v = verb.stative) arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise - come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
is one way to become
Sample sentence:
Something ----s

• develop(v = verb.change) build up - change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
Derived forms noun developer₁, noun development₅, noun development₆
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• develop(v = verb.communication) explicate, formulate - elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
is one way to conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• develop(v = verb.cognition) educate, prepare, train - create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
is one way to instruct, learn, teach
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

• develop(v = verb.change) Array - be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly"
is one way to come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
Sample sentence:
It ----s that CLAUSE

• develop(v = verb.change) Array - grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"
is one way to grow
Derived form noun development₃
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

• develop(v = verb.change) modernise, modernize - become technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
is one way to change
Derived form noun development₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

• develop(v = verb.change) make grow - cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• develop(v = verb.creation) Array - generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
is one way to bring forth, generate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

• develop(v = verb.change) grow - grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
is one way to change
Derived form noun development₂
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue develop

• develop(v = verb.perception) Array - make visible by means of chemical solutions; "Please develop this roll of film for me"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived forms noun developer₂, noun developing₁, noun development₈
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• develop(v = verb.contact) Array - superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry; Array
is one way to lay over, superimpose, superpose
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• develop(v = verb.competition) Array - move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly"
is one way to play
Derived form noun development₇
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

• develop(v = verb.competition) Array - move into a strategically more advantageous position; "develop the rook"
is one way to play
Derived form noun development₇
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• develop(v = verb.change) Array - elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme; "develop the melody and change the key"
is one way to complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• develop(v = verb.change) break, recrudesce - happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
is one way to come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
Derived form noun development₄
Sample sentence:
Something ----s

• develop(v = verb.change) Array - expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form"
is one way to expand
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

develop

accrue, accumulate, achieve, acquire, actualize, add to, advance, affect, age, aggrandize, ameliorate, amend, amplify, appear, appreciate, apprentice, arise, attain, attain majority, attend, augment, balloon, bare, bear fruit, beautify, become of, befall, beget, begin, betide, betoken, bloat, bloom, blossom, blow up, blueprint, boom, brandish, break, break in, break the seal, breathe, breed, brew, bring forth, bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring out, bring to light, bring to notice, bring up, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burgeon, call into being, chance, coin, come, come about, come along, come forth, come of, come of age, come on, come out, come to light, come to maturity, commence, complete, conceive, concoct, condition, contrive, cook up, crescendo, crown, culminate, cultivate, dangle, demonstrate, descant, design, detail, devise, dilate, discipline, disclose, discover, dismask, display, distend, divulge, do to perfection, dramatize, draw the veil, dream up, drill, elaborate, embellish, embody, emerge, enact, end, engender, enlarge, enlarge upon, ensue, establish, eventuate, evidence, evince, evolute, evolve, exercise, exhibit, expand, expatiate, explicate, exploit, expose, expose to view, express, extend, fabricate, fall out, fare, fetch up, fill out, finish, fit, flaunt, fledge, flourish, flower, follow, form, foster, frame, gain, gain ground, gain strength, gather, generate, germinate, get, get ahead, get along, give being to, give rise to, give sign, give token, go ahead, go forward, go up, graduate, greaten, groom, grow, grow better, grow up, happen, hatch, highlight, hike, hike up, house-train, housebreak, huff, hypertrophy, illuminate, impart, improve, improvise, incarnate, increase, indicate, inflate, intensify, invent, issue, lay bare, lay open, leave the nest, let daylight in, let out, lick into shape, look up, magnify, make clear, make do with, make headway, make plain, make progress, make strides, make up, manifest, materialize, maturate, mature, mean, meliorate, mellow, mend, mint, mount, multiply, mushroom, nurse, nurture, obtain, occur, open, open up, originate, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, pan out, parade, particularize, perfect, perform, perk up, pick up, plan, polish, practice, prepare, present, print, process, procreate, produce, progress, proliferate, promote, prosper, prove, prove to be, puff, puff up, pullulate, pump, pump up, put in tune, put to school, raise, raise the curtain, rarefy, reach, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ready, realize, rear, refine, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, represent, reproduce, result, reveal, ripen, rise, roll out, run up, season, send to school, set forth, settle down, shape up, shoot up, show, show forth, show improvement, show up, skyrocket, snowball, spawn, spotlight, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, strengthen, stretch, strike out, strip bare, sufflate, swell, take in hand, take off, temper, terminate, think out, think up, thrive, toga virilis, token, tower, train, transpire, trot out, tumefy, turn out, uncloak, uncover, undrape, unfold, unfurl, unkennel, unmask, unpack, unroll, unscreen, unsheathe, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, up, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wave, wax, widen, work out

ROGET THESAURUS

develop

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, 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, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Expansion

VB become larger &c (large), expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather, fill out, deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread, mantle, wax, grow up, spring up, bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth, gain flesh, gather flesh, outgrow, spread like wildfire, overrun, be larger than, surpass, render larger &c (large), expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram, exaggerate, fatten.

Evolution

VB evolve, unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel, untangle, disentangle, develop.

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