Synonyms: grow, get, acquire, produce, develop
Definition: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
Usage: He grew a beard; The patient developed abdominal pains; I got funny spots all over my body; Well-developed breasts
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Definition: change the use of and make available or usable
Usage: develop land; The country developed its natural resources; The remote areas of the country were gradually built up
Similar words: meliorate, improve, ameliorate, amend, better
Definition: to make better
Usage: The editor improved the manuscript with his changes
Synonyms: develop
Definition: expand in the form of a series
Usage: Develop the function in the following form
Similar words: expand
Definition: make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
Usage: expand the house by adding another wing
Synonyms: develop
Definition: grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
Usage: 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
Similar words: grow
Definition: become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
Usage: The problem grew too large for me; Her business grew fast
Definition: cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
Usage: The perfect climate here develops the grain; He developed a new kind of apple
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: break, develop, recrudesce
Definition: happen
Usage: Report the news as it develops; These political movements recrudesce from time to time
Similar words: come about, take place, go on, hap, happen, fall out, pass, pass off, occur
Definition: come to pass
Usage: What is happening?; The meeting took place off without an incidence; Nothing occurred that seemed important
Synonyms: develop
Definition: be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
Usage: The plot developed slowly;
Similar words: come about, take place, go on, hap, happen, fall out, pass, pass off, occur
Definition: come to pass
Usage: What is happening?; The meeting took place off without an incidence; Nothing occurred that seemed important
Synonyms: develop
Definition: elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
Usage: develop the melody and change the key
Similar words: elaborate, complicate, refine, rarify
Definition: make more complex, intricate, or richer
Usage: refine a design or pattern
Synonyms: develop, modernise, modernize
Definition: become technologically advanced
Usage: Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace; Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Definition: grow emotionally or mature
Usage: 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
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Synonyms: develop, acquire, evolve
Definition: gain through experience
Usage: 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
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Synonyms: prepare, train, develop, educate
Definition: create by training and teaching
Usage: The old master is training world-class violinists; we develop the leaders for the future
Similar words: teach, learn, instruct
Definition: impart skills or knowledge to
Usage: I taught them French; He instructed me in building a boat
Synonyms: develop, formulate, explicate
Definition: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
Usage: Could you develop the ideas in your thesis
Similar words: theorise, theorize, suppose, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, conjecture
Definition: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
Usage: Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
Synonyms: develop
Definition: move into a strategically more advantageous position
Usage: develop the rook
Similar words: play
Definition: participate in games or sport
Usage: We played hockey all afternoon; play cards; Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches
Synonyms: develop
Definition: move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
Usage: Spassky developed quickly
Similar words: play
Definition: participate in games or sport
Usage: We played hockey all afternoon; play cards; Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches
Synonyms: develop
Definition: superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
Similar words: superimpose, superpose, lay over
Definition: place on top of
Usage: can you superimpose the two images?
Synonyms: develop
Definition: generate gradually
Usage: We must develop more potential customers; develop a market for the new mobile phone
Similar words: bring forth, generate
Definition: bring into existence
Usage: The new manager generated a lot of problems; The computer bug generated chaos in the office; The computer generated this image; The earthquake generated a tsunami
Synonyms: germinate, evolve, develop
Definition: work out
Usage: We have developed a new theory of evolution
Similar words: create by mental act, create mentally
Definition: create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands
Synonyms: develop
Definition: make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
Usage: Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather; They developed a new technique
Similar words: create
Definition: bring into existence
Usage: The company was created 25 years ago; He created a new movement in painting
Synonyms: develop
Definition: make visible by means of chemical solutions
Usage: Please develop this roll of film for me
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Synonyms: grow, arise, originate, spring up, develop, uprise, rise
Definition: come into existence; take on form or shape
Usage: 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